Now then just for curiosity's sake again, nothing more: as I understand it, it is your desire to bor----" "I said intention." "Pardon, so you did.

I thought it was an unheedful use of the word--an unheedful valuing of its strength, you know." "I knew its strength." "Well, I must say--but look here, let me walk the floor a little, my mind is getting into a sort of whirl, though you don't seem disturbed any.
(Plainly this young fellow isn't crazy; but as to his being remarkable -- well, really he amounts to that, and something over.) Now then, I believe I am beyond the reach of further astonishment.

Strike, and spare not.

What is your scheme ?" "To buy the wool crop--deliverable in sixty days." "What, the whole of it ?" "The whole of it." "No, I was not quite out of the reach of surprises, after all.

Why, how you talk! Do you know what our crop is going to foot up ?" "Two and a half million sterling--maybe a little more." "Well, you've got your statistics right, any way.