When I was really five-and-twenty, I felt forty.' 'Well, what has that to do with money-making ?' 'After Mick's Algebra would follow naturally Mick's Arithmetic, Mick's Euclid, Mick's Trigonometry.

Twenty years hence I should have an income of thousands--thousands! I would then cease to teach (resign my professorship--that is to say, for of course I should be professor), and devote myself to a great work on Probability.

Many a man has begun the best of his life at sixty--the most enjoyable part of it, I mean.' Barfoot was perplexed.

He knew his friend's turn for humorous exaggeration, but had never once heard him scheme for material advancement, and evidently this present talk meant something more than a jest.
'Am I right or not?
You are going to get married ?' Micklethwaite glanced at the door, then said in a tone of caution,-- 'I don't care to talk about it here.

Let us go somewhere and eat together.