You must excuse me, Mr.Lopez, if I say that I would rather not discuss the matter with you any further." Then he rang the bell and passed quickly into an inner room.

When the clerk came Lopez of course marched out of the chambers and went his way.
Mr.Wharton had been very firm, and yet he was shaken.

It was by degrees becoming a fixed idea in his mind that the man's material prosperity was assured.

He was afraid even to allude to the subject when talking to the man himself, lest he should be overwhelmed by evidence on that subject.

Then the man's manner, though it was distasteful to Wharton himself, would, he well knew, recommend him to others.