This is what is called the personal element in business.

And, beside it, plodding industry is nowhere.
Most of all do these principles hold true in such manly out-of-door enterprises as the forest and timber business, where one deals constantly with chief rangers, and pathfinders, and wood-stalkers, whose very names seem to suggest a horn of whiskey under a hemlock tree.
But--let it be repeated and carefully understood--there was no excess about Mr.Rasselyer-Brown's drinking.

Indeed, whatever he might be compelled to take during the day, and at the Mausoleum Club in the evening, after his return from his club at night Mr.Rasselyer-Brown made it a fixed rule to take nothing.

He might, perhaps, as he passed into the house, step into the dining-room and take a very small drink at the sideboard.

But this he counted as part of the return itself, and not after it.