I did not have anything to do with it, but Slingsby did.
Well, now there's Slingsby on the rates and his wife a lady born, almost.

I might have been taken in the same way but for--for the grace of God, I'm minded to say.

Well, Slingsby's a good man, and used to be a hard-working man--all his life, and now it turns out that that prospectus came about by the man de Mersch's manoeuvres--"wild-cat schemes," they call them in the paper that I read.

And there's any number of them started by de Mersch or his agents.

Just for what?
That de Mersch may be the richest man in the world and a philanthropist.
Well, then, where's Slingsby, if that's philanthropy?
So Mr.Churchill comes along and says, in a manner of speaking, "That's all very well, but this same Mr.Mersch is the grand duke of somewhere or other, and we must bolster him up in his kingdom, or else there will be trouble with the powers." Powers--what's powers to me ?--or Greenland?
when there's Slingsby, a man I've smoked a pipe with every market evening of my life, in the workhouse?
And there's hundreds of Slingsbys all over the country.'" "The man was working himself--Slingsby _was_ a good sort of man.