First Great Western trains are often characterized by this curious air of panic. It's a combination of the company's attempts to repair its dreadful reputation for punctuality, and the 1970s slam-door carriages.

The check-raise looks very bluffy (although you know better than to check-raise bluff on these types of boards against stubborn opponents).

There’s no need for a coachman, as you won’t be going out at all at present; and the old gardener, whom I’ve taken with the house, of which he is part and parcel, is as stolid and unimaginative a Sussexer as you could find in this Boeotian county.

to confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them […]