It is a British publication, but not so slow as some colonials and a few United Statesers would have us believe British business men generally usually are.

I protest, it is to me the most difficult of things to write to one of your female - geniuses — there is a certain degree of cleverality (if I may so call it), an easy kind of derangement of periods, a gentleman-like — fashionable - careless — see-saw of dialogue — which I know no more of than you do of cruelty.

He is the right sort of man for a labourer, but he is a terrible eater, to be sure, thought the farmer.

The swelling of the ovary after fertilisation is termed grossification