Except that the latter's spinal column must have suffered some pretty severe snakings when the camera-carrier went through corduroy bridges […]

He was so full of mercury that he could not fix long in any friendship, or to any design.

No more being cockie. This is, as of now, an official operation. I do not take anymore chances for foolish reasons. I have to do this job absolutely right the first time. This is the only shot any of us are going to have, I'm afraid.

There, by dint of looking closely about me, I found a rough zig-zag descending path notched out: which I followed.