It may be so strange to you that you can't understand it, yet I haven't a single commercial instinct; and to be frank with you, that great store would be a penitentiary to me.

Wait a moment." Witherspoon had bounded to his feet.

"I am willing to do almost anything," Henry continued, "but I can't consent to a complete darkening of my life.

I admit that I am peculiar, and shall not dispute you in your belief that my mind is not strong, but I am firm when it comes to purpose.

To hear one say that he doesn't care to be the richest man in the country may strike you as the utterance of a fool, and yet I am compelled to say it.