And then nothing will do but you must run across for a trip.

Oh, I'll manage, and we'll make the money fly." He was always adding new details to his story, finding something to embellish it and heighten the effect, and now having succeeded in getting the false Iris into the house, he began already to devise schemes to get her out again.
"A hundred thousand pounds?
Why, Joe, it is a terrible great sum of money.

Good gracious! What shall we do with it, when we get it ?" "I'll show you what to do with it, my girl." "And you said, Joe--you declared that it is your own by rights." "Certainly it is my own.

It would have been bequeathed to me by my own cousin.

But she didn't know it.