Wild horses could not have torn him from this noble resolution.

There is an indescribable delicacy in the legal profession which we literary folk ought to imitate.
The United States lost! Which meant ruin and destruction to the "Blue Mass Company," who had bought from a paternal and beneficent Government lands which didn't belong to it.

The Mexican grant, of course, antedated the occupation of the mine by Concho, Wiles, Pedro, et al., as well as by the "Blue Mass Company," and the solitary partners, Biggs and Thatcher.

More than that, it swallowed up their improvements.

It made Biggs and Thatcher responsible to Garcia for all the money the Grand Master of Avarice had made out of it.