That bill I got through the assembly separating hardened criminals from those susceptible of reform--the indeterminate sentence law--was praised by penologists all over the country.

It's all in the day's work; sometimes you're patted on the back and the next time they kick you down stairs.

Without political influence you have no chance to help the good causes or defeat the bad schemes." "Yes, I suppose that is true," she murmured weakly.
He had successfully met and turned her attack and the worst had passed; but he expected her to make some reference to Thatcher's lawsuit for the control of the "Courier" and he was not disappointed.

Marian, who had a genius for collecting disagreeable information and a dramatic instinct for using it effectively, had apprised her of it.

This hazarding of Mrs.
Owen's favor became now the gravamen of his offense, the culmination of all his offenses.