He worships the very ground on which thou dost tread.

His father and I have spoken of it.

Fortune has dealt more kindly with our neighbours than with me.

Good James Harmer has laid by money, while I have adventured it rashly in the hope of large returns.

This calamity has but checked his work for these months; when the scourge is past, he will reopen business once more, and will find himself but little the poorer.