Mr.Muir is not the kind of man to speak to any one about his affairs unless it is essential, but if anything were amiss he would have told me.

I know the times are dismal, and I am better off on my assured salary than if in the firm now.

No one but 'bears' are making anything." "I hope your brother isn't in anxiety, like papa," she said, warmly.
His quick commercial instinct took alarm, and he asked, "What, have you heard anything ?" "Oh, no indeed.

Papa says that Mr.Muir is one of the most conservative of men; but he also says that there is scarcely a chance now for any honest man, and that investments which once seemed as solid as these mountains are sinking out of sight.

If it wasn't so we shouldn't be so worried.