Though we made a little by the turn of the market, we saved a heap of small fry from losing all they'd put in.

If we'd let the slump come and then bought we should have made a pile; but then we might have had difficulty in getting the stock up to anywhere near par again for some time.' 'Besides,' said the lady quietly, 'you would not have ruined all those little people if you could help it.' 'You think I wouldn't ?' He turned his eyes to her now.
'I'm sure you would not,' said the lady with perfect confidence.
'I don't know, I'm sure,' answered Mr.Van Torp in a doubtful tone.
'Perhaps I wouldn't.

But it would only have been business if I had.
It's not as if Bamberger and I had started a story on purpose about our quarrelling in order to make things go down.

I draw the line there.

That's downright dishonest, I call it.