But by the time I worked up to fancy goods I realized that I would have to be as old as Methuselah to make it at that rate.

And Mrs.Greenslet didn't like the city; she was a Bloombury girl.
It wasn't any place for the children." "So you came back ?" "We had saved a little.

I bought out this place and put in a few notions I'd got from Siegel's.

I'm comfortably off, but I'm not rich." "Would you like to be ?" "I don' know, I don' know.

I'd like to give the boys a better start than I had, but I'm my own boss here and one of the leading men.