My accepting the bank position was one more bond binding me to his side in the Shore Lane battle.

And, so long as I was under Taylor's eye and his own, I could not be subject to the Colton influence.
George and I discussed the question of salary, if his offer and my prompt acceptance might be called a discussion.

The pay was not large to begin with, but it was more than I had a right to expect.

And I was perfectly honest when I said that money was not the consideration which led me to make the sudden change in my habit of life.

I was sick of idleness; I had longed for something to occupy my life and time; I might as well be doing this as anything; Taylor's offer had appealed to me when he first made it; these were the excuses I evolved for my own satisfaction and I tried to believe them real.