In the one or two small financial deals in which I've had a share, I've usually been 'frozen out' in the end." "Ah, Flockart," sighed the Laird of Glencardine, "you are unfortunately quite correct.

The so-called smart business man is the one who robs his neighbour without committing the sin of being found out." This remark caused the other a twinge of conscience.

Did he intend to convey any hidden meaning?
He was full of cunning and cleverness.
"Well," Flockart exclaimed, "I'm truly gratified to think that I retain your confidence, Sir Henry.

If I have in the past been able to be of any little service to Lady Heyburn, I assure you I am only too delighted.
Yet I think that in the face of gossip which some of your neighbours here are trying to spread--gossip started, I very much fear, by Miss Gabrielle--my absence from Glencardine will be of distinct advantage to all concerned.

I do not, my dear Sir Henry, desire for one single moment to embarrass you, or to place her ladyship in any false position.