In fact, I don't know that I'd have agreed to turning Railton out if it hadn't been for Gerald's confounded debts and his allowance at Woolwich.

That's a fresh expense." Mrs.Osborn thought the expense did not count for much by comparison with her husband's extravagance; but he had been rather patient and she must not go too far.
"Well," she said, "you have got Railton's fine." "It is not a large sum," Osborn answered with a frown.

"I need the money, but in a sense I'd sooner it had not been paid.

Anyhow, I'd sooner it had not been paid like that.

The others' confounded organized opposition annoys me." "They were forced to subscribe to a fund if they wanted to help." "Just so; but they probably wouldn't have thought about subscribing if Askew hadn't suggested it.