The good name of our firm is everything to me.

I have spent my whole life in building it up, and if the day should come when it must go, I trust that I may have gone myself.

There is nothing which I would not do to preserve it." "I see they want our premiums," Ezra said, glancing at the open letter upon the table.

"How is it that none of those ships go down?
That would give us help." "Hush! hush!" John Girdlestone cried imploringly.

"Speak in a whisper when you talk of such things." "I can't understand you," said Ezra petulantly.