All their talk about honour and so forth is very pretty and edifying, but it's not meant for every day use.

Of course we should have to pay him." "Them, you mean ?" "No, we should only want one man." "How about our purchaser at the diamond fields ?" "You don't mean to say," Ezra said roughly, "that you would be so absurd as to trust any man with our money.

Why, I wouldn't let the Archbishop of Canterbury out of my sight with forty thousand pounds of mine.

No, I shall go myself to the diamond fields--that is, if I can trust you here alone." "That is unkind, Ezra," said his father.

"Your idea is an excellent one.