The poor General! He was neither very happy nor very unhappy--a doubting Thomas without faith or hope in humanity and without any particular affection for anybody.
"I'll tell you how it is with these small councils, Mr.Cowperwood," observed Van Sickle, sagely, after the preliminaries of the first interview had been dispensed with.
"They're worse than the city council almost, and that's about as bad as it can be.

You can't do anything without money where these little fellows are concerned.

I don't like to be too hard on men, but these fellows--" He shook his head.
"I understand," commented Cowperwood.

"They're not very pleasing, even after you make all allowances." "Most of them," went on the General, "won't stay put when you think you have them.

They sell out.