Edgar Jepson

“ This rise of salary justified me of my expenditure on the house; the fifty pounds extra equalled five per cent, interest on my £981, and I had the house as well. In this world one cannot have everything. ”

“ It is no confession for a young lawyer to make; but sometimes at the full moon I am a little mad. Several of my acquaintances have admitted to me that they are. It is an odd fact; but that it is a fact I am sure. ”

“ He died ten years earlier than he would have done, had those benefactors of the British Empire never emerged from the ghettos in which they were born. I had with me my Birkbeck bank-book which showed that I had £211 on deposit; and in five minutes I had arranged that my broker should buy me a thousand Tegean Corporations at nineteen shillings. There was the less difficulty about it since he knew me from the days when I had straightened out my paralyzed father's affairs and saved enough from the wreck to keep him in decent comfort for the two years he survived his losses. ”

“ The bend in it seems to have cut off the lower half from the sound of the traffic along the Southwell road. Sometimes I have the feeling of being far away from London, buried in the heart of the country. I have it even stronger sometimes than when I have actually been in the country. ”

“ It was then a great pleasure to come back from the office to my new home and get to my books unjarred by the conversation, at dinner, of my fellow boarders at Paragon House. Walden road must have been the quietest place in London. Perhaps it was owing to the fact that it curved, but though it was a turning off one of the main roads of Hertford Park, no sound of traffic reached No. ”