To enjoy fifty thousand dollars, which somebody else had made, was a charming consideration with him, and one that did much to reconcile him to an expenditure far beyond his original purpose.
When he had finished his examination of the house, he returned to his hotel, as business hours were past, and he could make no further headway that day in his negotiations.

The more he thought of the house, the more uneasy he became.

Somebody might have seen him looking at it, and so reached the broker first, and snatched it from his grasp.

He did not know that it had been in the market for two years, waiting for just such a man as himself.
Talbot was fully aware of the state of Mr.Belcher's mind, and knew that if he did not reach him early the next morning, the proprietor would arrive at the broker's before him.

Accordingly, when Mr.Belcher finished his breakfast that morning, he found his factor waiting for him, with the information that the broker would not be in his office for an hour and a-half, and that there was time to look further, if further search were desirable.