"Let me see: have I any thing in the way of a note to take up?
I believe not." "You say yes, then ?" "I don't know about that.

It doesn't just seem right." "Nonsense! It is wonderful how this business atmosphere does affect a man's perceptions! He can see nothing but the dollar.

Every thing is brought down to a money valuation." We will not trace the argument further.

Enough that the tempter was successful, and that Ellis, instead of going to his store, rode out with Carlton.
He was not, of course, home at his usual dinner-hour.

It was between three and four o'clock when he appeared at his place of business, the worse for his absence, in almost every sense of the word.