They say he's immensely wealthy.

He can retire now and enjoy his money.

If the public did not go back on him he'd be a dead man in five or six years.

He does the work of twenty men.
I pity the others, the poor devils who are waiting on fortune as I have waited." "There is no fear of Lady Anne disappointing you ?" she asked, in a hesitating voice.

She did not like to seem to throw cold water on his joyful mood.
"There is no fear," he answered, standing midway of the room with its three large windows.