The chances of making money disreputably are so great that the chances are against a man who has made money if he's made a great deal of it.'" March listened with a face of ironical insinuation.

"That was very good; and he seems to have had a good deal of confidence in your patience and in your sense of his importance to the occasion--" "No, no," Fulkerson protested, "there's none of that kind of thing about the colonel.

I told him to take time to think it over; he's the simplest-hearted old fellow in the world." "I should say so.

After all, he didn't give any reason he had for accepting.

But perhaps the young lady had the reason." "Pshaw, March!" said Fulkerson.
VI.
So far as the Dryfoos family was concerned, the dinner might as well have been given at Frescobaldi's rooms.