But I cannot give you anything like encouragement.

If I am ever to have a son-in-law I should wish to have an English son-in-law.

I do not even know what your profession is." "I am engaged in foreign loans." "Very precarious I should think.

A sort of gambling; isn't it ?" "It is the business by which many of the greatest mercantile houses in the city have been made." "I dare say;--I dare say;--and by which they come to ruin.

I have the greatest respect in the world for mercantile enterprise, and have had as much to do as most men with mercantile questions.