The smoke rose wreathingly from the chimney.

Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.

Patience is for poltroons, such as he: He durst not sit there, had your father lived.

That guy is totally crazy; he belongs in a nuthouse.