"I never saw one of you high-principled chaps yet that wasn't--until he got rich enough to be something else.

Progress is all right, maybe, but I notice that you fellows pay for it and the rest of us get it.

Just as I am going to get that land of yours." "You haven't got it yet," I said, serenely.

I had made up my mind that this time he should not provoke me into losing my temper.
He seemed to divine my determination.

His eye twinkled.