I shall be glad when I have finished, for the effort is a painful one, and I long for the peace of dissolution.

It is now a quarter to seven.

I have every hope that I may be able to leave before eight." It was strange to hear the perfect coolness with which he discussed his own approaching dissolution.

Calm, pale, and impassive, his manner was that of a professor addressing his class.

I had seen him speak so to a ring of dressers in the old days at Nathaniel's.
"The circumstances which led up to the death of Admiral Scott Prideaux, and the suspicions which caused the arrest of Doctor Yorke-Bannerman, have never yet been fully explained, although they were by no means so profound that they might not have been unravelled at the time had a man of intellect concentrated his attention upon them.