The House with the Green Shutters

Every time he looked at the place he had a sense of triumph over what he knew in his bones to be an adverse public opinion.

Young Gourlay came staggering round the corner, "a little sprung" (as they phrase it in Barbie), but not so bad as they had hoped to see him.

have the three great essentials of commercial success—imagination to conceive schemes, common sense to correct them, and energy to push them through.