He takes a turning, in the confident expectation that it will reward him by leading him to some satisfactory result--and he finds himself in a blind alley, or, as the French put it (I speak French fluently), in a _cool de sack_.

Do I make my meaning clear, Mr.Sarrazin ?" "Not the least in the world, ma'am." "How very extraordinary! Perhaps I have been misled by my own vivid imagination.

Let me endeavor to express myself plainly--let me say that my fancy looks prophetically at what you are going to do, and sincerely wishes you well out of it.

Pray go on." "And pray speak more plainly than my mother has spoken," Mrs.Linley added.

"As I understood what you said just now, there is a law, after all, that will protect me in the possession of my little girl.