In time you may be your uncle's confidential clerk, which I should like to be myself.

You may eventually be partner, as I should like to be; and in the long run you may succeed him, as I should like to do.

It is a good business, my dear, a sound business, a business of which much, very much, more might be made.

You might die rich, very rich.

You might be mayor, you might be Member, you might--but what is the use?
_You will not._ You do not see it, though I am telling you.