For without The Hard and--to give everyone their due--without the Island also, where would trade have been in Deadham these ten years and more past?
Mum's the word, take it from me,"-- and each did take it from the other, with rich conviction of successfully making the best of both worlds, securing eternal treasure in Heaven while cornering excellent profits on earth.
William Jennifer had many comments to make in the matter, and with praiseworthy reticence concluded to make them mainly to himself.

The majority of them, it is to be feared, were humorous to the point of being unsuited to print, but the refrain may pass-- "And to think if I hadn't happened to choose that particular day to take the little dorgs and the ferrets ratting, the 'ole bleesed howd'ye do might never have come to pass! Tidy sum, young master Darcy's in my debt, Lord succour him, for the rest of his nat'ral life!".