There are many ways in which I shall need advice, because I cannot take this fortune without its responsibility.

The mine must be worked to the best advantage and the people I employ treated well.

I mean to build good houses for them, not rude shacks, make it possible for them to lead happy lives, and see they get the best, not the worst, that our cities can send them when a settlement springs up." "It's a fine ambition," Thirlwell remarked.

"However, it will cost you something, and you'll find some resistance from the people you want to help; but if the ore's as good as we think, you'll be able to carry out your plans." "Do you think I could trust this work to a stranger?
A man hired for wages, who might have no sympathy with my aims ?" Agatha asked.

"Then, if when I've done all I mean, I'm rich, somebody must help me to use the money well." She turned her head for a moment, and then resumed: "Can't you see that it's daunting to feel I may have to struggle alone with a task I'm hardly fit for--to know I'll make mistakes ?" "There is your brother." Agatha smiled.
"George would see I made prudent investments, and think I ought to be satisfied with getting ten per cent." She gave Thirlwell a look that made his heart beat.