"I don't want to criticize, but Bell is greedy and cunning, and now he has got both coal yards will charge the farmers more than he ought.
He has already got too large a share of all the business that is done in the dale." "It's obvious that you have learned less than you think," Osborn rejoined, feeling that he was on safer ground.

"You don't seem to understand that concentration means economy.

Bell, for example, buys and stores his goods in large quantities, instead of handling a number of small lots at different times, which would cost him more." "I can see that," Grace admitted, "But I imagine he will keep all he saves.

You know the farmers are grumbling about his charges." Osborn frowned.

"You talk too much to the farm people; I don't like it.
You can be polite, but I want you to remember they are my tenants, and not to sympathize with their imaginary grievances.