Now and then, of course, I find him absorbing some sly hundreds.

When he bought the _Daily Tory_, he substituted a pretended agent between himself and Talon & Trehawke, and in that way sequestered over eleven thousand dollars behind the mask of commissions.

But I always discover and rectify these discrepancies.

And I forgive them, too; for Mr.Gwynn was educated to a theory of perquisites, and such little lapses as those _Daily Tory_ commissions are but the outcrop of old habits too deeply rooted to be eradicated." "But you present him as your patron--as the head of your house." "There you're in the wrong," laughed Richard.

"When I returned from Europe bringing Mr.Gwynn, society seized upon him for its own.