Every man has his chance, depend upon it, Phil, if he knows how to watch for it; but there are so many men who get tired and go to sleep before their chances come to them.

I've wasted a good deal of time, and a good deal of labour; but the ace of trumps is in the pack, and it must turn up sooner or later.

Ta-ta." George Sheldon nodded and departed, whistling gaily as he walked away from his brother's door.

Philip heard him, and turned his chair to the fire with a movement of impatience.
"You may be uncommonly clever, my dear George," soliloquised the dentist, "but you'll never make a fortune by reading wills and hunting in parish-registers for heirs-at-law.

A big lump of money is not very likely to go a-begging while any one who can fudge up the faintest pretence of a claim to it is above ground.