He would have called Nana Sahib a good fellow, and would have made some good-natured excuse for any peccadilloes on the part of that potentate).

"Paget's an uncommonly agreeable man, you know; but he is not the man I should care to trust with this kind of secret." Mr.Sheldon said this with a tone that implied his willingness to trust Captain Paget with every other kind of secret, from the contents of his japanned office-boxes to the innermost mysteries of his soul.
"You see Paget is thick with my brother Phil," he resumed; "and whenever I find a man thick with my relations, I make it a point to keep clear of that man myself.

Relations never have worked well in harness, and never will work well in harness.

It seems to be against nature.

Now Phil has a dim kind of idea of the game I want to play, in a general way, but nothing more than a dim idea.