Weak, trusting and pliable, a specious villain in whom he had confidence might easily get him involved in transactions that were criminal under the law.

She would be willing to sacrifice twice ten thousand dollars to accomplish this result.
Neither Mr.Dinneford nor Edith favored the business connection with Freeling, and said all they could against it.

In weak natures we often find great pertinacity.

Granger had this quality.

He had set his mind on the copartnership, and saw in it a high road to fortune, and no argument of Mr.Dinneford, nor opposition of Edith, had power to change his views, or to hold him back from the arrangement favored by Mrs.
Dinneford, and made possible by the capital she almost compelled her husband to supply.
In due time the change from clerk to merchant was made, and the new connection announced, under the title of "FREELING & GRANGER." Clear seeing as evil may be in its schemes for hurting others, it is always blind to the consequent exactions upon itself; it strikes fiercely and desperately, not calculating the force of a rebound.