If he had not bought the things, some other dealer would have bought them.

That is the easy-going way in which he would have argued the question, had he been called upon to argue it at all.
Mr.Fenton came in the evening to see the old man, and stood for a little time by the bedside watching him as he slept, and talking in a low voice to Marian.

He asked her how long she was going to remain in Queen Anne's Court, and found her ideas very vague upon that subject.
"If the end is so near as the doctor says, it would be cruel to leave my grandfather till all is over," she said.
"I wonder that your husband has not come to you, if he is in London," Gilbert remarked to her presently.

He found himself very often wondering about her husband's proceedings, in no indulgent mood.
"He may not be in London," she answered, seeming a little vexed by the observation.

"I am quite sure that he will do whatever is best." "But if he should not come to you, and if your grandfather should die while you are alone here, I trust you will send for me and let me give you any help you may require.