You'll never make anything like it; you find it easier to abuse people who work than to work yourself.

Now if you go down to Liverpool, and ask how I got to my present position, you'll find it's the result of hard and honest work.
Understand that: honest work." "And forgetting to pay your debts," threw in the young man.
"It's eight years since I owed any man a penny.

The people I _did_ owe money to were sensible men of business--all except your father, and he never could see things in the right light.

I went through the bankruptcy court, and I made arrangements that satisfied my creditors.
I should have satisfied your father too, only he died." "You paid tuppence ha'penny in the pound." "No, it was five shillings, and my creditors--sensible men of business--were satisfied.

Now look here.