I don't want to discourage you, but his looks are all against him, Betty.

If you take too great an interest in his concerns I am afraid you are going to have him permanently on your hands." "Haven't you some little scrap of business that really doesn't matter much, Charley?
You might try him--just to please me--" she persisted coaxingly.
"Well, there's land I'm buying--I suppose I could get him to look up the title, I know it's all right anyhow," said Norton, after a pause.
Thus it happened that judge Price, before he had been three days in Raleigh, received a civil note from Mr.Norton asking him to search the title to a certain timber tract held by one Joseph Quaid; a communication the effect of which was out of all proportion to the size of the fee involved.

The judge, powerfully excited, told Mahaffy he was being understood and appreciated; that the tide of prosperity was clearly setting his way; that intelligent foresight, not chance, had determined him when he selected Raleigh instead of Memphis.

Thereafter he spoke of Charley Norton only as "My client," and exalted him for his breeding, wealth and position, refusing to admit that any man in the county was held in quite the same esteem.

All of which moved Mahaffy to flashes of grim sarcasm.
The immediate result of Norton's communication had been to send the judge up the street to the courthouse.