You will have much to say to your father now, but I hope you will find time to come round, and say goodbye to my daughters, this evening." "Your adventures, Francis," Mr.Hammond said when the merchant had left them, "have turned out fortunate, indeed.

You have an opening now beyond anything we could have hoped for.

Signor Polani has expressed himself most warmly.

He told me that I need concern myself no further with your future, for that would now be his affair.

The arrangement that he has made with me, will enable me to hold my head as high as any in the City, for it will give me almost a monopoly of the Venetian trade; and although he said that he had long been thinking of entering into trade direct with England, there is no doubt that it is his feeling towards you, which has influenced him now in the matter.
"My business here has more than answered my expectations, in one respect, but has fallen short in another.