I am sure you can do so safely." But Mr.Carlton was very emphatic in his rejection of Dr.Kline.
"I may be a little peculiar," he said, "but do you know I never trust any important interest with a man who drinks habitually ?--one of your temperate drinkers, I mean, who can take his three or four glasses of wine at dinner, or twice that number, during an evening while playing at whist, but who never debases himself by so low a thing as intoxication." "Are not you a little peculiar, or, I might say, over-nice, in this ?" remarked Doctor Hillhouse.
"No, I am only prudent.

Let me give you a fact in my own experience.

I had a law-suit several years ago involving many thousands of dollars.
My case was good, but some nice points of law were involved, and I needed for success the best talent the bar afforded.

A Mr.B----, I will call him, stood very high in the profession, and I chose him for my counsel.

He was a man of fine social qualities, and admirable for his after-dinner speeches.