To be sure, the fundamental tenets of honesty remain immutable; but business practices change—voluntarily or by legal compulsion. Therefore, to stigmatize or epithetize the operation in the setting of today would not only be unfair to the defendants, but it would unjustly discolor a view of the case.

At twilight in the summer […] the mice come out. They […] eat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkley, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed, sprinkling crumbs lavishly—the only lavishment of which he was ever guilty—on the floor.

That cocktails will batter you!

Brett smiled at him. I've promised to dance this with Jacob, she laughed. You've a hell of a biblical name, Jake.