You have been doing this sort of heavenly thing--how many years ?" "Too many.

Tell me; you've really made good this last year, haven't you, Garry ?" Hamil nodded.

"I had to." He laid his hand on the older man's arm.

"Why do you know," he said, "when they gave me that first commission for the little park at Hampton Hills--thanks to you--I hadn't five dollars in all the world." Wayward stood looking at him through his spectacles, absently pulling at his moustache, which was already partly gray.
"Garry," he said in his deep, pleasant voice that was however never very clear, "Portlaw tells me that you are to do his place.

Then there are the new parks in Richmond Borough, and this enormous commission down here among the snakes and jungles.