This addition to your income will be a great help.

To show her that I am perfectly in earnest, and that you can depend on receiving the sum specified, I will draw up a little agreement, which, if all parties are satisfied, can be signed at once." Claire promised to talk the matter over with his wife at dinner-time.
The morning did not pass without varied assaults upon the young man's recent good resolutions.

Several times he had customers in from whom it would have been easy to get more than a fair profit, but he steadily adhered to what he believed to be right, notwithstanding Jasper once or twice expressed dissatisfaction at his not having made better sales, and particularly at his failing to sell a piece of cloth, because he would not pledge his word as to its colour and quality--neither of which were good.
The proposition of Jasper for him to make, in his family, a place for the orphan, caused Claire to postpone the announcement of his intention to leave his service, until after he had seen and conferred with his wife.
At the usual dinner-hour, Claire returned home.

His mind had become by this time somewhat disturbed.

The long-cherished love of money, subdued for a brief season, was becoming active again.