Can you tell me, Duane, what all this doleful talk is about ?" "It's about something harder to digest than this salad.

The public stomach is ostrichlike, but it can't stand the water-cure.

Which is all Arabic to you, Rosalie, and I don't mean to be impertinent, only the truth is I don't know why people are losing confidence in the financial stability of the country, but they apparently are." "There's a devilish row on down-town," observed Delancy, blinking, as an unusually heavy clap of thunder rattled the dishes.
"What kind of a row ?" asked Duane.
"Greensleeve & Co.

have failed, with liabilities of a million and microscopical assets." Rosalie raised her eyebrows; Greensleeve & Co.

were once brokers for her husband if she remembered correctly.