I like to deal with an obvious rogue.

The really dangerous subject is your honest fool, who goes on straight enough till he has lulled one into a false security, and then turns thief all at once at the instigation of some clever tempter." "That young man lives in the house with you, I suppose ?" "Yes; my household consists of Luke Tulliver, and an old woman who does the cooking and other work.

There are a couple of garrets at the top of the house where the two sleep; my own bedroom is over this; and the room over the shop is full of pictures and other unsaleable stuff, which I have seldom occasion to show anybody.

My business is not what it once was, Mr.Fenton.I have made some rather lucky hits in the way of picture-dealing in the course of my business career, but I haven't done a big line lately." Gilbert was inclined to believe that Jacob Nowell was a much richer man than he cared to confess, and that the fortune which Marian Nowell might inherit in the future was a considerable one.

The old man had all the attributes of a miser.