Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and is inexpressibly irksome to me.
You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.
Even the best of us are thrown off some- times.
When people bury treasure nowadays they do it in the Post-Office bank.
...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.
So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.