It was only after responding to this promising offer that the applicant was informed that he must possess one indispensable qualification in the shape of a capital of five hundred pounds.

Mr Hawkehurst laughed aloud when the Captain imparted this condition with that suave and yet dignified manner which was peculiar to him.
"I ought to have known it was a dodge of that kind," said the young man coolly.

"Those very good things--duties light and easy, hours from twelve till four, speedy advancement certain for a conscientious and gentlemanly person, and so on--are always of the genus _do_.

Your advertisement is very cleverly worded, my dear sir; only it's like the rest of them, rather _too_ clever.

It is so difficult for a clever man not to be too clever.