A dear, dear, lovely time with you all, every day, every day.

Never do I want a better time than I have had with you." The event proved the wisdom of Mrs.Gwynne's determination to put little faith in the optimistic confidence of her husband in regard to the profits to be expected from the operations of the National Machine Company.

A year's business was sufficient to demonstrate that the Mapleton branch of the National Machine Company was bankrupt.

By every law of life it ought to be bankrupt.

With all his many excellent qualities Mr.Gwynne possessed certain fatal defects as a business man.
With him the supreme consideration was simply the getting rid of the machines purchased by him as rapidly and in such large numbers as possible.