It's as much as I can do to write a letter, and half the time that's not legible." "Oh, it wasn't so hard," laughed Shirley.

"It was the subject that appealed rather than any special skill of mine.

The trusts and their misdeeds are the favourite topics of the hour.

The whole country is talking about nothing else.

My book came at the right time, that's all." Although "The American Octopus" was a direct attack on her own husband, Mrs.Ryder secretly admired this young woman, who had dared to speak a few blunt truths.