Those sort of men, dull drones like Neverbend, are just the fellows who go the deepest.

I'll be bound he will not return without a few Mary Janes in his pocket-book.

He'll be a fool if he does, I know.' 'Why, that's the very mine we are down here about.' 'And that's the very reason why he'll purchase Mary Janes.

He has an opportunity of knowing their value.

Oh, let Neverbend alone.
He is not so young as you are, my dear fellow.' 'Young or old, I think you mistake his character.' 'Why, Tudor, what would you think now if he not only bought for himself, but was commissioned to buy by the very men who sent him down here ?' 'It would be hard to make me believe it.' 'Ah! faith is a beautiful thing; what a pity that it never survives the thirtieth year;--except with women and fools.' 'And have you no faith, Scott ?' 'Yes--much in myself--some little in Lord Palmerston, that is, in his luck; and a good deal in a bank-note.