Speculation on this abstruse problem, however, yielded to keen interest in Mr.Holden's proceedings.
On the face of the map he located a number of small wooden carvings, which were really very ingenious.

They represented churches, an hotel, a mansion, three ordinary houses, a rambling building like a public institution, and a nondescript structure difficult to classify.
"I find," said Mr.Holden, when the _mise-en-scene_ was quite to his liking, "that a good map, and a few realistic models of the principal buildings dealt with in my discourse, give a lucidity and a coherence otherwise foreign to the narrative." Even Winter became restive under this style of address.

Brett caught his eye, and moved by common impulse, they lessened the whisky-mark in a decanter of Antiquary.
"Allow me to remark," interpolated Brett, "that your telegrams were admirably terse and to the point." "Thank you, sir.

Many eminent judges have complimented me on my manner of giving evidence.

And now to business.