"Come down to dinner and let's talk no more about it," said Grant, with a great effort restraining himself.

"I tell you, Josh, you make it mighty hard sometimes for me to remember what I owe you." Craig wheeled on him with eyes that flashed and pierced.

"My young friend," said he, "you owe me nothing.

And let me say to you, once for all, you are free to break with me at any instant--you or any other man.
Whenever I find I'm beginning to look on a man as necessary to me I drop him--break with him.

I am necessary to my friends, not they to me.