A very picturesque and moving story is first written by one of the staff of distinguished novelists who are at present hard at work in the adjoining room.

Yours, Major Brown (designed by our Mr Grigsby), I consider peculiarly forcible and pointed; it is almost a pity you did not see the end of it.

I need scarcely explain further the monstrous mistake.

Your predecessor in your present house, Mr Gurney-Brown, was a subscriber to our agency, and our foolish clerks, ignoring alike the dignity of the hyphen and the glory of military rank, positively imagined that Major Brown and Mr Gurney-Brown were the same person.

Thus you were suddenly hurled into the middle of another man's story." "How on earth does the thing work ?" asked Rupert Grant, with bright and fascinated eyes.
"We believe that we are doing a noble work," said Northover warmly.