He cares more for money than anything else." "Perhaps you are doing him an injustice." "I am afraid not.

Did you never hear how he treated the Underhills ?" "How ?" "Underhill was laid up with rheumatic fever for three months.

The consequence was that when quarter day came round he was in about the same situation with ourselves--a little worse, even, for his wife was sick also.

But, though Colman was aware of the circumstances, he had no pity; he turned them out without ceremony." "Is it possible ?" asked Mrs.Harding, uneasily.
"And there's no reason for his being more lenient with us.

I can't but feel anxious about to-morrow, Martha." At this moment, verifying an old adage, which will perhaps occur to the reader, who should knock but Mr.Colman himself.