I fancy you going about the world like a man traveling on a railroad in which he owns a large amount of stock.

You make me feel as if I had missed something.

What is it ?" "It is the proud consciousness of honest toil--of having manufactured a few wash-tubs," said Newman, at once jocose and serious.
"Oh no; I have seen men who had done even more, men who had made not only wash-tubs, but soap--strong-smelling yellow soap, in great bars; and they never made me the least uncomfortable." "Then it's the privilege of being an American citizen," said Newman.
"That sets a man up." "Possibly," rejoined M.de Bellegarde.

"But I am forced to say that I have seen a great many American citizens who didn't seem at all set up or in the least like large stock-holders.

I never envied them.