Its advantages have long been familiar to the clergy; and even, in some desperate cases, politicians have found a resort to it of signal benefit.

There are instructive instances, also, in banks and insurance offices of the comfort and value of spotless linen.

Combined with highly-polished shoes, it is of inestimable mercantile advantage.
Mr.Gray prospered in business, and nobody was sorry.

He enjoyed his practical joke and his glass of Madeira, which had made at least three voyages round the Cape.

His temperament, like his person, was just unctuous enough to enable him to slip comfortably through life.
Happily for his own comfort, he had but a speaking acquaintance with politics.