Hunted Down: the detective stories of Charles Dickens

by Charles Dickens

Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance, any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.)

An observer of men who finds himself steadily repelled by some apparently trifling thing in a stranger is right to give it great weight. It may be the clue to the whole mystery. A hair or two will show where a lion is hidden. A very little key will open a very heavy door.)