Oh no!" "Could he be bought ?" asked the lawyer.
"Could he ?" A flush of surprise lit up, for a moment, the face of Jasper.

"What a question for _you_ to ask.

Hasn't every man his price?
Bought! Yes, I could buy him fifty times over." "Then do so, and in the quietest manner.

That is my advice." "I'll steal the child!" exclaimed Jasper, rising up in his excitement, and moving uneasily about the room.
Grind shook his head, as he replied-- "All folly.

No man ever did a wise thing while he was in a passion.
You must permit yourself to cool down a great many degrees before you can act judiciously in this matter." "But to be thwarted by him!" An expression of the deepest disgust was in the face of Jasper.
"All very annoying, of course," was the response of Grind.