"If you have some rich friends, you might, of course, persuade them to buy the shares and vote for you; but you can't sell them in the ordinary way.

I imagine Mr.Strange has tried!" Agatha saw that George had tried when she glanced at his disturbed face.
Then she turned to Thirlwell and noted, with surprise, that he looked amused.

She could see nothing in the way matters were going that warranted his humorous twinkle.

It looked as if Stormont would win, and she felt that she was being robbed to satisfy his greed; but the mine meant more to her than the money she had expected to get.

She had resolved to make it famous as a monument to her father; its success was to prove that his life had not Been wasted in empty dreams.
"Investors are a suspicious lot," Stormont went on.