They help drive home my idea that the old parties, like old, established business houses, have got to maintain a standard or they will lose the business to which they are rightfully entitled.

When you see your customers passing your front door to try a new shop farther up the street, you want to sit down and consider what's the matter, and devise means of regaining your lost ground.

It doesn't pay merely to ridicule the new man or cry that his goods are inferior.

Yours have got to be superior--or"-- and the gray eyes twinkled for the first time--"they must be dressed up to look better in your show window." Bassett rose and walked the length of the room, with his hands thrust into his trousers pockets, and before he sat down he poured himself a glass of water from the pitcher and drank it slowly, with an air of preoccupation.

He moved easily, with a quicker step than might have been expected in one of his figure.