I am not obliged to give you any at all, you know.

I am doing it because I am good-natured and because we are in this thing together.

If the worst happens, you can come back to your old place in the firm.

I dare say we shall pull along somehow." Burton shuddered from head to foot.

He saw it all mapped out before him--the miserable routine of dull, undignified work, the whole intolerable outlook of that daily life.