The way people act in private is often quite different to how they act when in public.
人们私下的行为跟公共场合的行为是截然不同的。
God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.
鲜肉由天次,劣厨乃鬼遣。
In the nineteenth century, a novelist would bring his story to a conclusion by presenting his readers with a series of coincidences -- most of them wildly improbable.