Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

The miracle or the power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance under the promptings of a brave, determined spirit.

Now I can only pray that there may be a God -- and a heaven -- or something better.

Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature!

I have always been rather better treated in San Francisco than I actually deserved.

But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

Had double chins all the way down to his stomach.