When people bury treasure nowadays they do it in the Post-Office bank.
It is all in the way of professional experience.
There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
It’s every man’s business to see justice done.
The approach to the offices of Girdlestone and Co. was not a very dignified one, nor would the uninitiated who traversed it form any conception of the commercial prosperity of the firm in question.
Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.