And, sooner or later, all these persons, who are in trouble with their property or their affections, come to me, because money is invariably at the bottom of the trouble.

Money is invariably at the bottom of all trouble.

And I represent money." He pursed up his lips and gazed somnolently at the fire.

"Ask anybody," he went on, dreamily, after a pause, "if that is not the bare truth.

Ask Colville, ask Mrs.St.Pierre Lawrence, ask Miriam Liston, sitting here beside us, if I exaggerate the importance of--of myself." "Every one," admitted Barebone, cheerfully, "knows that you occupy a great position in Paris." Turner glanced at him and gave a thick chuckle in his throat.
"Thank you," he said.