He thought Mr.Breen would listen to me on account of mother.

I told him of our dreadful situation; how Garry must have ten thousand dollars, and must have it in twenty-four hours, to save us all from ruin.

Would you believe, Jack--that he laughed and said it was an old story; that Garry had no business to be speculating; that he had told him a dozen times to keep out of the Street; that if Garry had any collaterals of any kind, he would loan him ten thousand dollars or any other sum, but that he had no good money to throw after bad.

I did all I could; I almost went down on my knees to him; I begged for myself and my mother, but he only kept saying--'You go home, Corinne, and look after your baby--women don't understand these things.' Oh, Jack!--I could not believe that he was the same man who married my mother--and he isn't.
Every year he has grown harder and harder; he is a thousand times worse than when you lived with him.

Garry was waiting outside for me, and when I told him he turned as white as a sheet, and had to hold on to the iron railing for a moment.