I don't want to call or be called on.

I am a student in a small way, and a man of quiet tastes.

I have no social ambitions at all.
Do you understand ?" "Entirely." "On the other hand, my experience of the world has been that it is the rarest thing to be able to form a friendship with a poorer man--I mean with a man who is at all eager to increase his income.

They think much of your wealth, and little of yourself.

I have tried, you understand, and I know." He paused and ran his fingers through his thin beard.
Robert McIntyre nodded to show that he appreciated his position.
"Now, you see," he continued, "if I am to be cut off from the rich by my own tastes, and from those who are not rich by my distrust of their motives, my situation is an isolated one.