Oh, he's all right," said Kitty decisively.

"He's my papa's employer and he gave him _fifty_ dollars last Christmas, 'cause my papa told me so." This munificent gift did not appear to impress Mr.Brown very much, any more than it did Livingstone, who felt himself flush.
"Business is business, you know ?" said the shopkeeper,--an aphorism on which Livingstone had often acted, but had never had cited against him.
The shopkeeper was evidently considering.
Livingstone was half angry and half embarrassed.

He felt as he had not done in twenty years.

The shopkeeper was weighing him in his scales as he might have done a pound of merchandise, and Livingstone could not tell what he would decide.

There was Kitty, however, her eyes still filled with light.