The first thing is to leave off grizzling.

Why, you are playing the enemy's game.

That can't be right, can it ?" This remark was the first that really roused the sick man.
Wheeler had too few clients to lose one.

He now visited Bassett almost daily, and, being himself full of schemes and inventions, he got Bassett, by degrees, out of his lethargy, and he emerged into daylight again; but he looked thin, and yellow as a guinea, and he had turned miser.

He kept but one servant, and fed her and himself at Sir Charles Bassett's expense.