He wants the place to be just as she left it when she comes back." "Well, well, let's hope it will.

I'm giving him a chance," replied M.
Mornay with his wineglass raised.

"He's got eight thousand dollars in cash to build his mill again; and I hope he'll keep a tight hand on it till the mill is up." Keep a tight hand on it?
That is what Jean Jacques meant to do; but if a man wants to keep a tight hand on money he should not carry it about in his pocket in cold, hard cash.

It was a foolish whim of Jean Jacques that he must have the eight thousand dollars in cash--in hundred-dollar bills--and not in the form of a cheque; but there was something childlike in him.

When, as he thought, he had saved himself from complete ruin, he wanted to keep and gloat over the trophy of victory, and his trophy was the eight thousand dollars got from the Barbille farm.