I give you your chance.

If a trip to Europe in the _Kaiser Wilhelm_ to-morrow morning seems to you opportune, you will certainly escape reading the record of your own folly in the evening papers." Weiss threw away his half-chewed cigar, and taking another from the box, lit it deliberately.
"Now, Mr.Vine," he said, "you are a young man whose attention has never been turned to the practical affairs of life.

You are a literary person, and you walk a good deal with your head in the clouds.

You haven't the hard common sense of us business men to be able to determine exactly what the result in a commonplace world is of any definite action.

I can assure you that no prison in America could ever hold me and my friends, and that our risk is not in any way so serious as you imagine.