"If every man was a Turk we could take his word, but when they are Jews and Christians and such other unreliable people, of course they want something for their ducats.

It's the same old pound of flesh.

Very respectable firm this, Mr.Arthur Breen & Co .-- VERY respectable people.

I used to press off the elder gentleman's coat--he had only two--one of them I made myself when he first came to New York--but he has forgotten all about it now," and the little tailor purred softly.
"If you had pressed out his morals, Isaac, it would have helped some." "They didn't need it.

He was a very quiet young man and very polite; not so fat, or so red or so rich, as he is now.