CHAPTER XXIII.
BONIFACE NEWT, SON, AND CO., DRY GOODS ON COMMISSION.
Abel Newt smoked a great many cigars to enable him to see his position clearly.
When he told his mother that he could not accompany her to the Springs because he was about entering his father's counting-room, it was not so much because he was enamored of business as that his future relations with Hope were entirely doubtful, and he did not wish to complicate them by exposing himself to the chances of Saratoga.
"Business, of course, is the only career in this country, my son," said Boniface Newt.

"What men want, and women too, is money.

What is this city of New York?
A combination of men and machines for making money.

Every body respects a rich man.

They may laugh at him behind his back.