I mean, taking into consideration the damage it may do our reputation ...

that we ought to ask Mr.Howden to accept, say fifty pounds less than...." "I should think it's an excellent idea," Lea said.

Mr.Polehampton glanced at him suspiciously, then turned to me.
"You see," he began to explain, "one has to be _so_ careful about these things." "Oh, I can quite understand," I answered.

There was something so naive in the man's point of view that I had felt my heart go out to him.

And he had taught me at last how it is that the godly grow fat at the expense of the unrighteous.