"Everybody that is anybody is down on Arthur.

See what his wife has brought him to, with her crazy, upsetting ideas! They tell me a good many of the best people in Saint X hardly speak to him.

Yes, Charles, _look_ at Hiram's doings." "Thanks to Hiram--what he inherited from Hiram and what Hiram had the good sense not to let him inherit--he has become a somebody.

He's doing things, and the fact that they aren't just the kind of things I like doesn't make me fool enough to underestimate them or him.

Success is the test, and in his line he's a success." "If it hadn't been for his wife he'd not have done much," said Matilda sourly.
"You've lived long enough, I'd think, to have learned not to say such shallow things," drawled he.