I was bitter against him, and went without trying to say good-bye.
'My son's fortune seems to have been made chiefly out of horse-dealing and what they call "land-grabbing"-- buying sheep-runs over the heads of squatters, to be bought out again at a high profit.

Well, you know what my opinion is of trading at the best, and as far as I could understand it, it was trading at about its worst that had filled Michael's pockets.

He'd had a partner for a time, and very ugly stories were told me about the man.

However, Michael gave me as kind a welcome as his letter promised; prosperity had done him good, and he seemed only anxious to make up for the years of unkindness that had gone by.

Had I been willing, I might have lived under his roof at my ease; but I held him to his bargain, and worked like any other man who goes there without money.