But of lesser fish, such as cod, halibut, lobster, salmon, and that sort of thing, there is enough going to waste to feed a nation." "I tell you what we will do!" exclaimed Mr.Selincourt.

"We will order the necessary plant, and we will start a curing factory.

Of course we are out of the world for nine months in every year, but that won't make much difference in the end; and we got our fishing rights cheaply enough to enable us to make a very good thing indeed out of our venture before we have done." "Don't you think it is rather grasping of you to want to make more money, Daddy, when you have got so much already ?" broke in Mary, in a playful tone, yet with some underlying seriousness of purpose.
"Not a bit of it, my dear.

Because I have got some money should be no barrier to my getting more, if I get it honestly," her father answered with soothing toleration; for Mary had ideas, and was apt to air them in rather unmeasured language when she was roused.
"It seems so ignoble to spend all one's time and energy in making money when there are so many wrongs which need righting, and so many people who need helping," she said, with a note of pathos in her tone.
"The most effectual way of helping people is to assist them in helping themselves," broke in Jervis.

"If Mr.Selincourt develops this fishing as it is capable of being developed, he will do more real good than if he spent hundreds of pounds in charity." "If you were really a Canadian you would have said dollars, not pounds," she interrupted, with mock gravity, just as if she were making fun of him to his face.
"I am an Englishman," he said quietly, too much in earnest just then to resent her levity, "so it is most natural to me to speak of pounds.