"During nearly the whole of the time I have been abroad, I have been practically pioneering.
Building railways in the far West, with gangs of Chinese and Italians and Hungarians and scarcely a foreman who isn't terrified of his job, isn't exactly drawing-room work." "You are going back there ?" Mr.Fentolin asked, with interest.
Hamel shook his head.
"I have no plans," he declared.

"I have been fortunate enough, or shall I some day say unfortunate enough, I wonder, to have inherited a large legacy." Mr.Fentolin smiled.
"Don't ever doubt your good fortune," he said earnestly.

"The longer I live--and in my limited way I do see a good deal of life--the more I appreciate the fact that there isn't anything in this world that compares with the power of money.

I distrust a poor man.

He may mean to be honest, but he is at all times subject to temptation.