And this thing has--has--" "Sort of knocked you on your beam ends, I understand.

Well, Jim," with a sigh, "I ain't exactly on an even keel myself." They separated, Pearson going to his room.

As Captain Elisha was passing through the hall on the second floor, he heard someone calling him by name.

Turning, he saw his landlady's head, bristling with curl papers, protruding from behind the door at the other end of the passage.
"Captain Warren," she asked, "is that you ?" "Yes, ma'am," replied the captain, turning back.
"Well, I've got a message for you.

A Mr.Sylvester has 'phoned you twice this evening.