He can come into the business now--he can't come later." "Is there a business ?" "Lord, yes--a big brave bouncing business.

A roaring trade." "A great shop ?" "Yes--a workshop; a great production, a great industry.

The concern's a manufacture--and a manufacture that, if it's only properly looked after, may well be on the way to become a monopoly.

It's a little thing they make--make better, it appears, than other people can, or than other people, at any rate, do.

Mr.Newsome, being a man of ideas, at least in that particular line," Strether explained, "put them on it with great effect, and gave the place altogether, in his time, an immense lift." "It's a place in itself ?" "Well, quite a number of buildings; almost a little industrial colony.
But above all it's a thing.