I won't have him around the work at all.

Now what is the second proposition, sir ?" As Tom spoke he looked straight into Mr.Bascomb's eyes.

The other glared at him unbelievingly but angrily.
"Young man, you don't appear to understand that I am president and head of the Melliston Company." "I quite understand it, sir," Reade answered.

"At the same time I am chief engineer here, and I am committed to building the breakwater and dredging out the enclosed bay or harbor, all within a certain fixed appropriation.
In order to keep my part of the bargain I must have men with me on whom I can depend to the fullest limit.

Evarts isn't such a man and I won't have him on the work again." "He'll go on the pay-roll, anyway," snorted Mr.Bascomb.
"I can't help what you may see fit to pay him, Mr.Bascomb, provided you pay him somewhere else.