He was like some remnant of a great life, loose in a careless world.
"I tell you," he said, the smoke leaking from his mouth like a drift of snow, "the only thing worth doing is making the things that matter in the commerce and politics of the world." "I didn't know you were a politician," said Carnac.

"Of course I'm a politician," was the inflammable reply.

"What's commerce without politics?
It's politics that makes the commerce possible.

There's that fellow Barouche--Barode Barouche--he's got no money, but he's a Minister, and he can make you rich or poor by planning legislation at Ottawa that'll benefit or hamper you.

That's the kind of business that's worth doing--seeing into the future, fashioning laws that make good men happy and bad men afraid.