I think my client would give you as good a price as any; and I suppose you want to get as much as you can for it now that you have made up your mind to the sacrifice ?" Marvin suppressed a sigh, and rubbed his hands together with that forced jocularity which had made his companion turn grave once before.
"Oh, I mean to drive a hard bargain, I can tell you!" was the reply, with an assumption of worldly wisdom on a countenance little calculated to wear that expression naturally.
"What did your friend in the print-shop on the Quai Voltaire mention as a probable price ?" asked Turner, carelessly.
"Well, he said he might be able to sell it for me at four thousand francs.

I would not hear of his running any risk in the matter, however.
Such a good fellow, he is.

So honest." "Yes, he is likely to be that," said Turner, with his broad smile.

He was a little sleepy after a heavy luncheon, and sipped his coffee with a feeling of charity toward his fellow-men.

"You would find lots of honest men in the Quai Voltaire, Sep.