I should curse it to damnation if I was living on it.

I'm not, and I don't mean to do so." "Then I'll stay here and work too, without it," she urged, with a light in her eyes which they had never known.
He laughed mirthlessly.

"What could you do--you never did a day's work in your life!" "You could teach me how, Shiel." His jaw jerked in a way it had when he was incredulous.

"You used to say I was only--mark you, only a dreamer and a sportsman.

Well, I'm no longer a dreamer and a sportsman; I'm a practical man.