He assured her that she had struck a rich vein in an inexhaustible mine; by writing only a very little faster she could double her income; counting a broader popularity, treble it; and so on a tide of success down the widening river to a sea sheer golden.

Behold how it sparkles! Are we then to stint our winged hours of youth for want of courage to realize the riches we can command?
Debit was eloquent, he was unanswerable.
Another calculator, an accustomed and lamentably-scrupulous arithmetician, had been at work for some time upon a speculative summing of the outlay of Diana's establishment, as to its chances of swamping the income.

Redworth could guess pretty closely the cost of a house hold, if his care for the holder set him venturing on aver ages.

He knew nothing of her ten per cent.

investment and considered her fixed income a beggarly regiment to marshal against the invader.