The governor seems always to pull it off." Howard smiled.
"You talk as if an affair of thousands of thousands, perhaps millions, were quite a bagatelle," he said.

"My dear boy, don't you understand, realise, the importance of this business?
It's nothing less than a railway from--" Stafford nodded.

"Oh, yes, you told me about it.

It's a very big thing, I daresay, but what puzzles me is why the governor should care to worry about it.

He has money enough--" "No man has money enough," said Howard, solemnly.