Joshua, fill the glasses." Sylvia was anxious to know the rest of the story.
"I hope they gave you the money, Mrs.Owen," she said.
Did they give it to me?
Why, child, they raised it twenty thousand dollars! I had to hold 'em down.

Then Morton Bassett pulled it through the senate for me.

I told him if he didn't I'd cut his acquaintance." "There's Ed Thatcher, too, if we're restricted to the Democratic camp," the minister was saying.

"Thatcher has a fortune to use if he ever wants to try for something big in politics, which doesn't seem likely." "He has a family that can spend his money," said Mrs.Martin.

"What would he want with an office anyway?
The governorship would bore him to death." "It might tickle him to go to the senate, particularly if he had a score to clean up in connection with it," remarked Ware.
"Just what do you mean by that ?" asked the admiral.
"Well," Ware replied, "he and Bassett are as thick as thieves just now in business operations.