Looks like rain, Elder; I 'spect she'll have to go over with me arter all," said George Thayer, the handsomest, best-natured stage-driver in the whole State of New Hampshire.

His approach is also personal, reflecting his hyperactivism, his passions and his determination to promote French business around the world.

I'm not sure I'll be any good at this, but let me have a bash.

Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house ; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something ; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.