Hospitals, railways, factories, or any other concerns working for the public good, notify this bureau that they need the sort of work a Saturdaying provides.

Generally, women can’t do this, but men retain the ancient ability to leave a family and a past. They just unhook themselves, like removing a fake beard, and skulk discreetly back into society, changed men. Unrecognizable.

For spherical bodies move by fives, and every globular figure placed upon a plane, in direct volutation, returns to the first point of contaction in the fifth touch, accounting by the axes of the diameters or cardinal points of the four quarters

I was annoyed by this insinuation— my boyish pride took fire at once; and although I knew this proposition to be the result of the present splenetic mood, yet feeling a little spleened myself, I determined to see him through on his own terms, and merely said, Very well, sir—as you choose.