Take care, child! They say there are sand-banks in the Nile which, like soft pillows, entice one to rest.

But if you use them they become alive, and a crocodile creeps out, with open jaws.

I am talking already in metaphor, like an Alexandrian, but you will understand me." Melissa bowed acknowledgment to him, and the old man went on: "He may perhaps forget you; for many things had accumulated during his illness.

If the mass of business, as it comes in, is not settled for twenty four hours, it swells like a mill-stream that has the sluice down.

But when work is begun, it quite carries him away.