Under modern conditions and the extremely high cost of estimating plumbing work, he can not afford to estimate or submit bids which will be shopped or naggled after the award of contract.

He had the car pushed to a near-by stable. . . . You were right, he said, when I met him out again in it, a week later. It was gummed up, so to speak; but it's working like a charm to-day.

Ned is running, panicked, […] running for the cold hard road and the sanctuary of the Brunch farm like a filicide caught in the act.

Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around.