"It is never comfortable to be dragging a powder magazine after one!" Nothing could be truer, and this van with its imperial treasure was a powder magazine that might blow up our train.

" Van is a common prefix of names in New York; but Bog needed no further assurance that this Van belonged to Quintem.

In the centre of the squadron and between the two lines of horse-soldiers could be seen two police-vans drawn by post-horses, behind each vehicle came a little open barouche, in which there sat one man.

" Van wasn't a dignified man at all, but as he said that with a sudden flash of his mild eyes, there was something in his face and manner that daunted Aunt Kipp more than the small fist belligerently shaken at her from behind the sofa.

If Van is a fool, I prefer simpletons to wiseacres.