Instead of selling we should both add to our stock.

I at any rate am resolved to do so.' 'Listen to me, Undy,' said Alaric.
'The truth is,' said Undy--who at the present moment preferred talking to listening--'the truth is, you do not understand buying and selling shares.

We should both be ruined very quickly were I to allow myself to be led by you; you are too timid, too much afraid of risking your money; your speculative pluck hardly rises higher than the Three per cents, and never soars above a first-class mortgage on land.' 'I could be as sanguine as you are, and as bold,' said Alaric, 'were I venturing with my own money.' 'In the name of goodness get that bugbear out of your head,' said Undy.

'Whatever good it might have done you to think of that some time ago, it can do you no good now.' There was a bitter truth in this which made Alaric's heart sink low within his breast.
'Wherever the money came from, whose property it may have been or be, it has been used; and now your only safety is in making the best use of it.

A little daring, a little audacity--it is that which ruins men.