But you are not heartless.

Don't say that of yourself, please--please don't! You cannot fancy how it would hurt me to think that your helping me was only a rich man's caprice, that because a few thousand pounds are nothing to you it amused you to throw the money away on me and my ideas, and that you would just as soon put it on a horse, or play with it at Monte Carlo!' 'Well, you needn't worry,' observed Mr.Van Torp, smiling in a reassuring way.

'I'm not given to throwing away money.

In fact, the other people think I'm too much inclined to take it.

And why shouldn't I?
People who don't know how to take care of money shouldn't have it.
They do harm with it.