And, by the by, how's the silk plant--flourishing ?" "Yes." "Did you bring any fibre ?" "Schooner-full." "I see.

To be transhipped to Liverpool for experimental manufacture, eh?
Eminent capitalists at home very much interested, aren't they ?" "They are." A silence fell.

Then the Editor uttered slowly--"You will be a rich man some day." Renouard's face did not betray his opinion of that confident prophecy.
He didn't say anything till his friend suggested in the same meditative voice-- "You ought to interest Moorsom in the affair too--since Willie has let you in." "A philosopher!" "I suppose he isn't above making a bit of money.

And he may be clever at it for all you know.

I have a notion that he's a fairly practical old cove.