"It's my turn now.
Before, however, I tell you what discoveries I have made in London, and how I came to be mixed up in this matter of the Diamond, I want to know one thing.

You look, my old friend, as if you didn't quite understand the object to be answered by this consultation of ours.

Do your looks belie you ?" "No, sir," I said.

"My looks, on this occasion at any rate, tell the truth." "In that case," says Mr.Franklin, "suppose I put you up to my point of view, before we go any further.

I see three very serious questions involved in the Colonel's birthday-gift to my cousin Rachel.