I can’t call myself a busy man—unfortunately,” said Horace, with that…

He had had a warning, a practical moral lesson which had merely arrived, as such things often do, rather after date.

The knowledge that one has a remedy within reach is often as effectual as the remedy itself, if not more so.

Drastic measures is Latin for a whopping.

Two or three days at sea are equivalent to at least as many weeks on shore.

He was not a strong-minded man; but he had one quality which is almost as valuable a safeguard against temptation as strength of mind—namely, timidity.

“And you suppose that, knowing how I have changed, he will believe that!” she cried. “He will fire long before you can finish one of those fine sentences!”