How! They surely cannot pretend that the black is an Englishman? There are all kinds of Englishmen, black and white, when seamen grow scarce. […]

In comments posted below this clip on YouTube, visitors report with delight that the tactic really does work and offer a few tips of their own: walk around the office carrying manila envelopes, advises one.

He was tempted to try the last door—to look into the room of evil fame; but he reflected that this would be indiscreet, since Colonel Capadose handled the brush—as a raconteur—with such freedom. There might be a ghost and there might not; but the Colonel himself, he inclined to think, was the most mystifying figure in the house.

Please hush-now this heart to dumben this breath. Please muffle the whimpers, the drippings of sweat.