He did not say a word; he was happy beyond the power of speech.
After that, they broke the Sabbaths right along as fast as they turned up.

It is the first wrong step that counts.

Every Sunday they put in the whole day, after morning service, on inventions--inventions of ways to spend the money.

They got to continuing this delicious dissipation until past midnight; and at every seance Aleck lavished millions upon great charities and religious enterprises, and Sally lavished like sums upon matters to which (at first) he gave definite names.

Only at first.