I can price the Mounds to a fraction, and I know how they can be best disposed of; and likewise that they take no harm by standing where they do.

You'll look in to-morrow, will you be so kind ?' 'Every day.

And the sooner I can get you into your new house, complete, the better you will be pleased, sir ?' 'Well, it ain't that I'm in a mortal hurry,' said Mr Boffin; 'only when you DO pay people for looking alive, it's as well to know that they ARE looking alive.

Ain't that your opinion ?' 'Quite!' replied the Secretary; and so withdrew.
'Now,' said Mr Boffin to himself; subsiding into his regular series of turns in the yard, 'if I can make it comfortable with Wegg, my affairs will be going smooth.' The man of low cunning had, of course, acquired a mastery over the man of high simplicity.

The mean man had, of course, got the better of the generous man.