A man may throw a guinea on the crossroads in the night, and have it back from Dr.Upandown any time within seven years.

You ought to know by this time what they are, hard as it is to get among them." "I only know that they can shut their mouths; and the devil himself--I beg your pardon, madam--Old Nick himself never could unscrew them." "You are right, Sir.

I know their manner well.

They are open as the sky with one another, but close as the grave to all the world outside them, and most of all to people of authority like you." "Mistress Anerley, you have just hit it.

Not a word can I get out of them.