The world is tolerably good to the man who has no scruples, you see, and I took all it offered me, while it did not seem fitting that a clod of a trooper without capacity for enjoyment, or much more sensibility than the beast he rode, should put an end to all my opportunities.

Still, it was only when he tried to warn his comrades he threw his last chance away." Winston shivered a little at the dispassionate brutality of the speech, and then checked the anger that came upon him.
"Fate, or my own folly, has put it out of my power to denounce you without abandoning what I have set my heart upon, and after all it is not my business," he said.

"I will give you five hundred dollars and you can go to Chicago or Montreal, and consult a specialist.

If the money is exhausted before I send for you, I will pay your hotel bills, but every dollar will be deducted when we come to the reckoning." Courthorne laughed a little.

"You had better make it seven fifty.
Five hundred dollars will not go very far with me." "Then you will have to husband them," said Winston dryly.