It would be perilous to put yourself in the hands of a mortgage broker." Barrington stood up very grim and straight, and there were not many men at Silverdale who would have met his gaze.
"Your content is a little too apparent, but I can still resent an impertinence," he said.

"Are my affairs your business ?" "Sit down, sir," said Winston.

"I fancy they are, and had it not been necessary, I would not have ventured so far.

You have done much for Silverdale, and it has cost you a good deal, while it seems to me that every man here has a duty to the head of the settlement.

I am, however, not going to urge that point, but have, as you know, a propensity for taking risks.