We are all human and vulnerable"-- up went Mr.Avery's lower lip covering the upper one, and then down again--"and it does not behoove any of us to be too severely ethical and self-righteous.

Mr.Sluss is a well-meaning man, but a trifle sentimental, as I take it." As Mr.Avery paused Cowperwood merely contemplated him, amused no less by his personal appearance than by his suggestion.
"Not a bad idea," he said, "though I don't like to mix heart affairs with politics." "Yes," said Mr.Avery, soulfully, "there may be something in it.

I don't know.

You never can tell." The upshot of this was that the task of obtaining an account of Mr.
Sluss's habits, tastes, and proclivities was assigned to that now rather dignified legal personage, Mr.Burton Stimson, who in turn assigned it to an assistant, a Mr.Marchbanks.

It was an amazing situation in some respects, but those who know anything concerning the intricacies of politics, finance, and corporate control, as they were practised in those palmy days, would never marvel at the wells of subtlety, sinks of misery, and morasses of disaster which they represented.
From another quarter, the Hon.