I find 'time' penalties are no use: it breaks the contractor's back; but the extra ten per cent.

makes them hustle, as they say on the 'other side.' Have you seen the stables yet?
But of course you haven't, or I should have seen you there.

I go down there every morning; not because I understand much about horses, but because I'm fond of them.
That will be your department, my dear Stafford." At each turn of their way Stafford found something to admire, and his wonderment at the settled and established "Oh, I stipulated that there shouldn't be any newness--any 'smell of paint,' so to speak.

Here are the stables; I had them put as far from the house as possible, and yet get-at-able.

Most men like to stroll about them.