Knowing you as I do, I advise you to accept Arnault at once; but I do not demand it; I do not even urge it.

If you loved me, if you would say, 'Give up this feverish life of risk; I will help you and suffer with you in your poverty; I will marry Graydon Muir and share his poverty,' I would leave Wall Street at once and forever.

It's a maelstrom in which men of my calibre and means are sucked down sooner or later.

The prospects now are that it will be sooner, unless I am helped through this crisis." "I believe you are mistaken about the Muirs being in financial danger." "I am not mistaken.

They may have to suspend daring the coming week." "I know that Graydon Muir has no suspicion of trouble." "He is but a clerk in his brother's employ, and has just returned from a long absence.