The doctor charged two dollars for every visit, and the bill was not quite settled yet.
Then the little house which had come to him from his father, encumbered with a mortgage as is usual, had all at once seemed to need repairs at every point.

The roof had leaked like a sieve, two windows had been blown in, the paint had turned a gray-black, the gutters had been out of order.

He had not quite settled the bill for these repairs.

He realized it always as an actual physical incubus upon his slender, bowed shoulders.

He came of a race who were impatient of debt, and who regarded with proud disdain all gratuitous benefits from their fellow-men.