It's a good thing for us; but we have to ask whether Dryfoos has done us the good, or whether it's the blessing of Heaven.

If it's merely the blessing of Heaven, I don't propose being grateful for it." March laughed again, and his wife said, "It's disgusting." "It's business," he assented.

"Business is business; but I don't say it isn't disgusting.

Lindau had a low opinion of it." "I think that with all his faults Mr.Dryfoos is a better man than Lindau," she proclaimed.
"Well, he's certainly able to offer us a better thing in 'Every Other Week,'" said March.
She knew he was enamoured of the literary finish of his cynicism, and that at heart he was as humbly and truly grateful as she was for the good-fortune opening to them.
XVII.
Beaton was at his best when he parted for the last time with Alma Leighton, for he saw then that what had happened to him was the necessary consequence of what he had been, if not what he had done.
Afterward he lost this clear vision; he began to deny the fact; he drew upon his knowledge of life, and in arguing himself into a different frame of mind he alleged the case of different people who had done and been much worse things than he, and yet no such disagreeable consequence had befallen them.

Then he saw that it was all the work of blind chance, and he said to himself that it was this that made him desperate, and willing to call evil his good, and to take his own wherever he could find it.