You know Jansenius ?" he added parenthetically to Sir Charles.

"Cotman's bank--the last Cotman died out of the firm before we were born.

The Chairman of the Transcanadian Railway Company." "I know the name.

I am seldom in the city." "Naturally," assented Trefusis; "for who would sadden himself by pushing his way through a crowd of such slaves, if he could help it?
I mean slaves of Mammon, of course.

To run the gauntlet of their faces in Cornhill is enough to discourage a thoughtful man for hours.