We came into the world under the shadow of the serpent.

We are special correspondents with the Devil's army.

We report his victories in our three-volume novels, his occasional defeats in our five-act melodramas." "All of which is very true," remarked Jephson; "but you must remember it is not only the literary man who traffics in misfortune.

The doctor, the lawyer, the preacher, the newspaper proprietor, the weather prophet, will hardly, I should say, welcome the millennium.

I shall never forget an anecdote my uncle used to relate, dealing with the period when he was chaplain of the Lincolnshire county jail.