When Warburton came back from St.Kitts, and their friendship was renewed, Godfrey's talk gave full play to his imaginative energies.

Yes, yes, the refining business was at a bad pass just now, but this was only temporary; those firms that could weather the storm for a year or two longer would enter upon a time of brilliant prosperity.

Was it to be supposed that the Government would allow a great industry to perish out of mere regard for the fetish of Free Trade?
City men with first-hand information declared that "measures" were being prepared; in one way or another, the English trade would be rescued and made triumphant over those bounty-fed foreigners.
"Hold on ?" cried Sherwood.

"Of course I mean to hold on.

There's pleasure and honour in the thing.