Howbeit, I enabled him to make good his defalcation--in the city they consider a defalcation made good when the money is replaced--and to go to New York.
I recommended him not to go there; but he knew better than I, for he made a fortune by speculating with money that existed only in the imagination of those with whom he dealt.

He never repaid me; he is probably far too good a man of business to pay money that cannot be extracted from him by an appeal to the law or to his commercial credit.
Mr.Erskine," added Trefusis, lowering his voice, and turning to the poet, "you are wrong to take part with hucksters and money-hunters against your own nature, even though the attack upon them is led by a man who prefers photography to etching." "But I assure you--You quite mistake me," said Erskine, taken aback.
"I--" He stopped, looked to Sir Charles for support, and then said airily: "I don't doubt that you are quite right.

I hate business and men of business; and as to social questions, I have only one article of belief, which is, that the sole refiner of human nature is fine art." "Whereas I believe that the sole refiner of art is human nature.

Art rises when men rise, and grovels when men grovel.

What is your opinion ?" "I agree with you in many ways," replied Sir Charles nervously; for a lack of interest in his fellow-creatures, and an excess of interest in himself, had prevented him from obtaining that power of dealing with social questions which, he felt, a baronet ought to possess, and he was consequently afraid to differ from anyone who alluded to them with confidence.