The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
Nothing, say you? Perhaps so; nothing but a charming woman, who, strange as it may appear, made him the happiest of men!
It may be taken for granted that, rash as Americans usually are, when they are prudent, there is good reason for it.
I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new.
Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.
Everybody knows that England is the world of betting men, who are of a higher class than mere gamblers: to bet is in the English temperament.
As for seeing the town, he did not even think of it, being of that breed of Britons who have their servants do their sightseeing for them.
A true Englishman doesn’t joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.