I'd never get beyond a clerkship, and how could you and I be happy on the paltry earnings of a clerk?
I want the best of everything in the world for you, and the only time when I won't want it will be when there is something better.

And I'm going to get it, going to get all of it.

The income of a successful author makes Mr.Butler look cheap.

A 'best-seller' will earn anywhere between fifty and a hundred thousand dollars--sometimes more and sometimes less; but, as a rule, pretty close to those figures." She remained silent; her disappointment was apparent.
"Well ?" he asked.
"I had hoped and planned otherwise.

I had thought, and I still think, that the best thing for you would be to study shorthand--you already know type-writing--and go into father's office.