It was so like Smith's work, so much more like the top of a strongly spiked wall than a head of hair, that the best of players at leap-frog might have declined him, as the most dangerous man in the world to go over.

“Oh indeed! Our and the Wilfers' Mutual Friend, my dear.”

“Shirking and sharking, in all their many varieties, have been sown broadcast by…”

“El recuerdo de lo que ha pasado me hace casi esperar que te duela. Pero al cabo…”

“Substance of the Shadow XI. Dusk XII. Darkness XIII. Fifty-two XIV. The Knittin…”