Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man.

Outrage, combining as it does shock, anger, reproach, and helplessness, is perhaps the most unmanageable, the most demoralizing of all the emotions.

It's easy enough to make the truth look silly. A man never seems more foolish-like than he does when he's speaking his whole mind and heart.

A genuine coincidence always means bad luck for me; it's my only superstition.

It was a little skirmish across a century.

Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man.

When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that up and drop it on the bricks, don't you think?