They do turn against Brady, now that he's unfortunate, and they don't like him as well as they did before; but it isn't because of any lack in Brady--he's just as he was before, has the same nature and the same impulses, but they-- well, Brady is a thorn in their consciences, you see.

They know they ought to help him and they're too stingy to do it, and they're ashamed of themselves for that, and they ought also to hate themselves on that account, but instead of that they hate Brady because he makes them ashamed of themselves.

I say that's human nature; that occurs everywhere; this boarding house is merely the world in little, it's the case all over--they're all alike.

In prosperity we are popular; popularity comes easy in that case, but when the other thing comes our friends are pretty likely to turn against us." Tracy's noble theories and high purposes were beginning to feel pretty damp and clammy.

He wondered if by any possibility he had made a mistake in throwing his own prosperity to the winds and taking up the cross of other people's unprosperity.