The advance price would about twice cover the interest at a goodly rate, had the affair been conducted on the mortgage basis.

Arthur himself had proposed that, and "I will of course pay for any improvements you may have made in the mean time," he said.

There was nothing in the least mean or ungenerous about Arthur Carroll.

He meant, on the whole, rather more squarely to his fellow-men than to himself.
Then with the money obtained from the sale of his patrimony he went to work on his coal-mine.

A very trifle of a beginning had been made on it before the war, so he had not actually to break the first ground.