Certainly you had to pay for these advantages and luxuries, but no more than you would have to lay out in the rents, rates, and taxes of palatial offices in a first-class business quarter.
"And my line of business demands luxurious fittings," remarked the American, as he installed Allerdyke in a sybaritic armchair and handed him a box of big cigars of a famous brand.

"You're not the first millionaire that's come to anchor in that chair, you know!" "If they're millionaires in penny-pieces, maybe not," answered Allerdyke.
He lighted a cigar and glanced appraisingly at his surroundings--at the thick velvet pile of the carpets, the fine furniture, the bookcases filled with beautiful bindings, the choice bits of statuary, the two or three unmistakably good pictures.

"Doing good business, I reckon ?" he said, with true Yorkshire curiosity.

"What's it run to, now ?" Fullaway showed his fine white teeth in a genial laugh.
"Oh, I've turned over two and three millions in a year in this little den!" he answered cheerily.

"Varies, you know, according to what people have got to sell, and what good buyers there are knocking around." "You keep a bit of sealing wax, of course ?" suggested Allerdyke.