for it instead of three,--there's no harm in that." "But there's such a thing as security, look you.

He is a warm man, certainly--very warm--quite respectable--most undoubtedly respectable.
But who knows?
A panic may take place; and then these five hundred companies in which he is engaged may bring him to ruin.

There's the Ginger Beer Company, of which Brough is a director: awkward reports are abroad concerning it.

The Consolidated Baffin's Bay Muff and Tippet Company--the shares are down very low, and Brough is a director there.
The Patent Pump Company--shares at 65, and a fresh call, which nobody will pay." "Nonsense, Mr.Smithers! Has not Mr.Brough five hundred thousand pounds' worth of shares in the INDEPENDENT WEST DIDDLESEX, and is THAT at a discount?
Who recommended my aunt to invest her money in that speculation, I should like to know ?" I had him there.
"Well, well, it is a very good speculation, certainly, and has brought you three hundred a year, Sam my boy; and you may thank us for the interest we took in you (indeed, we loved you as a son, and Miss Hodge has not recovered a certain marriage yet).

You don't intend to rebuke us for making your fortune, do you ?" "No, hang it, no!" says I, and shook hands with him, and accepted a glass of sherry and biscuits, which he ordered forthwith.
Smithers returned, however, to the charge.