We must be highly respectable citizens, and keep ourselves straight." "Don't you undertake to teach your grandmother how to suck eggs," responded the proprietor with a huge laugh, in which the factor joined.
Then he added, thoughtfully: "I haven't said a word to the woman about it, and she may make a fuss, but she knows me pretty well; and there'll be the biggest kind of a row in the town; but the fact is, Toll, I'm at the end of my rope there.

I'm making money hand over hand, and I've nothing to show for it.

I've spent about everything I can up there, and nobody sees it.

I might just as well be buried; and if a fellow can't show what he gets, what's the use of having it?
I haven't but one life to live, and I'm going to spread, and I'm going to do it right here in New York; and if I don't make some of your nabobs open their eyes, my name isn't Robert Belcher." Mr.Belcher had exposed motives in this little speech that he had not even alluded to in his addresses to his image in the mirror.

Talbot saw that something had gone wrong in the town, that he was playing off a bit of revenge, and, above all, that the vulgar desire for display was more prominent among Mr.Belcher's motives for removal than that person suspected.
"I have a few affairs to attend to," said Mr.Talbot, rising, "but after twelve o'clock I will be at your service while you remain in the city.
We shall have no difficulty in finding a house to suit you, I am sure, and you can get everything done in the matter of furniture at the shortest notice.