I wish to be _rich_!' 'You are either mad or are going to get married.' Micklethwaite cackled louder than ever.
'I am planning a new algebra for school use.

If I'm not much mistaken, I can turn out something that will supplant all the present books.
Think! If Micklethwaite's Algebra got accepted in all the schools, what would that mean to Mick?
Hundreds a year, my boy--hundreds.' 'I never knew you so indecent.' 'I am renewing my youth.

Nay, for the first time I am youthful.

I never had time for it before.

At the age of sixteen I began to teach in a school, and ever since I have pegged away at it, school and private.
Now luck has come to me, and I feel five-and-twenty.