I can't say I follow it very clearly myself, for the clerical mind, as everybody knows, is not very well adapted to grasping scientific terminology, but I can understand the general tenor of it well enough.

It seems to me that the enterprise is promising in a very high degree." "How very remarkable!" observed Aunt Charlotte, as she gazed at the tabulated figures and enumeration of chemical properties in bewildered awe.

"And you think it a safe investment ?" "_I_ do," replied Mr Sheepshanks, "but don't act on my opinion--judge for yourself.

What's the amount you have to invest--two thousand pounds, isn't it?
Well, I believe that you'd stand to get an income to that very amount by investing just that sum in the undertaking.

Look what they say overleaf about the cost of working and the estimated returns.