We shall never get to the end if you go back to Adam and Eve." "People don't go back often enough." "Bother!" said Mr.Grey, finishing his second and last glass of port-wine.

"Do keep yourself in some degree to the question in dispute.
In advising an attorney of to-day as to how he is to treat a client you can't do any good by going back to Adam and Eve.

Augustus is the heir, and I am bound to protect the property for him from these money-lending harpies.

The moment the breath is out of the old man's body they will settle down upon it if we leave them an inch of ground on which to stand.

Every detail of his marriage must be made as clear as daylight; and that must be done in the teeth of former false statements." "As far as I can see, the money-lending harpies are the honestest lot of people concerned." "The law is not on their side.