Meanwhile I forgot my romantic dreams of flashing eyes and twinkling feet and began to get interested in business.
To-day I'm worth real money and am on top of the heap downtown; but socially--Good Lord! the woman's a millstone! She's grown fat and talks through her nose, and--" "You want to get rid of her," finished Gottlieb.
"Exactly!" answered Dillingham.

"How much will it cost ?" "I think you had better give me your check for ten thousand dollars to begin with," replied my partner.

"Such a case presents great difficulties--almost insuperable without money.

I am not even sure that what you want can be accomplished without running grave personal risks--not on your part, but on ours.

Such risks must be compensated for.