For a month or more he had been in the humiliating position of being obliged to dodge the fellow, and he was getting tired of it.

The whole amount was well under six hundred dollars, and as he had made it perfectly plain to the beggar that he was drawing ten per cent.

on the loans, he couldn't see what sense there was in being in such a hurry to collect.

On the other hand, as the beggar wasn't receiving the interest, it is quite possible that he could not look at the situation from George's point of view.
Young Mr.Tresslyn finally had reached the conclusion that he would have to ask his mother for the money.

He knew that the undertaking would prove a trying one, so he dashed up to his room for the purpose of fortifying himself with a stiff drink of benedictine.
Having taken the drink, he sat down for a few minutes to give it a chance to become inspirational.