All sums greater than a hundred dollars were blessedly alike to him--equally prodigious.

Two hundred, or thousands, or tens of thousands sent the same rays of light through the spectrum of his poetic mind, and a bank was an institution of such abiding grace that, having once established a connection with it, one possessed forever a stout prop in time of need.
I was sure indeed that Miss Caroline had defined these limitations of Clem as a financier.

It was one of those enjoyable topics which we had been free to discuss.

That she had discovered how lamentably his resources had been reduced by freight tolls on her furniture I could only infer.

But I knew, at least, that she was aware of the blistering, rainless summer that had laid Clem's high hopes of a garden in dust and cut off half his revenue.