His face was haggard.
"I have begun," he said slowly, "to lose faith in myself, and when one does that here the end is not far off.

I believe that Littleson is right, Stella.

I believe that your father, if it pleased him, could take them one by one and break them, as he is doing me." "Supposing, on the other hand," she said, "something were to happen so that they were in a position to break him ?" "Then," he answered coolly, "it would be the very best thing that could happen for the country and for me.

There's no morality about speculation, of course, and the finance of this country is one of the most ghastly things in the world.

All the same, there are degrees of rascality, and there is no one who has sinned against every law of decency and respect for his fellows like Phineas Duge.