"Not quite, but almost." "Well, this is what I've got to say.

You've got youth, courage, and good sense, and business ability, and what more does a man want in life, I ask you that ?" Tarboe nodded, but made no reply.
"Well, I don't feel as strong as I used to do.

I've been breaking up this last year, just when we've been knitting the cracks in the building.

What was in my mind is this--to leave you when I die the whole of my business to keep it a success, and get in the way of Belloc, and pay my wife so much a year to live on." "That wouldn't be fair to your wife or your sons." "As for Carnac, if I left him the business it'd be dead in two years.
Nothing could save it.

He'd spoil it, because he don't care for it.