"The nimble sixpence is better than the slow shilling, you know.

We must make our shears eat up cloth a little faster, or we sha'n't clear ten thousand dollars this year by one-third of the sum." "Although that would be a pretty decent business these times." "I don't call any business a decent one that can be bettered," replied Grasp, contemptuously.
"But can ours be bettered ?" "Certainly!" "How ?" "By selling more goods." "How are we to do that ?" "By putting down the prices, and then making a confounded noise about it.

Do you understand ?" "I do.

But our prices are very low now." "True.

But we may reduce them still further, and, by so doing, increase our sales to an extent that will make our business net us beyond the present income quite handsomely.