I wonder you don't start a little country seat with some grounds.

Just enough to ask a fellow to shoot over, and with a good billiard board, and every convenience of that sort.
It would do for us to spend the time from Saturday to Monday, and allow us to get some fresh air into our lungs.

There are plenty of men who can't afford it half as well, and yet have something of the sort.
What's the use of having a good balance at your banker's, if you don't live better than your neighbours ?" "There is only one objection to it," the merchant said huskily, and with a forced laugh; "I have not got a good balance at the banker's." "Pretty fair, pretty fair," his son said knowingly, picking up the long thin volume in which the finance of the firm was recorded and tapping it against the table.
"But the figures there are not quite correct, Ezra," his father said, still more huskily.

"We have not got nearly so much as that." "What!" roared the junior partner.
"Hush! For God's sake don't let the clerks hear you.

We have not so much as that.