27/28 It vanishes in the transfer of its title and is no more. Who seeks to buy it gains only loss. Who sells his honor sells his manhood and becomes simply a thing of meat and blood and bones--a thing to be watched and driven and cudgelled like the ox--for he has sold that he can not buy, not if all the riches in the world were his." A little silence followed the words. Then Uncle Peabody said: "That's the kind o' stuff in our granary. We've been reapin' it out o' the books Mr.Grimshaw scolded about, a little here an' a little there for years, an' we knew it was good wheat. |