Aha! my young friend, how is it you grow first red and then white when I mention Miss Halliday's husband ?" I have no doubt that I did indeed blanch when that portentous word was uttered in conjunction with my darling's name.

Mr.Sheldon leant a little further across the table, and his hard black eyes penetrated a little deeper into the recesses of my foolish heart.
"Valentine Hawkehurst," he said, "shall we throw my brother Phil overboard altogether?
Shall you and I go shares in this fortune ?" "Upon my word and honour I don't understand you," I said, in all sincerity.
"You mean that you won't understand me," answered George Sheldon, impatiently; "but I'll make myself pretty clear presently; and as your own interest is at stake, you'll be very unlike the rest of your species if you don't find it easy enough to understand me.

When first I let you in for the chance of a prize out of this business, neither you nor I had the slightest idea that circumstances would throw the rightful claimant to the Haygarth estate so completely into our way.

I had failed so many times with other cases before I took up this case, that it's a wonder I had the courage to work on.

But, somehow or other, I had a notion that this particular business would turn up trumps.