"Gracious alive, can they expect people to wait always?
Dear, what can the world be coming to when we are all to be cheated out of our rights?
We'll have the law on them." Money professes great love for the law, and not without cause.

The rich man thinks that the law is his; and the poor man says, "It was not made for me." Among the ladies Henry was the subject of a subdued discussion, and occasionally he heard Mrs.Colton say: "Such a comfort to you, and after so many years of separation.

So manly." And then Mrs.Brooks would say: "Yes, indeed." Henry noticed that Colton was not accompanied with his mutton-broth economy.

It was evident that the old man was frugal only to his own advantage, and that his heartiness came at the expense of other men.
Brooks arrived soon after dinner.

The women went to the drawing-room to talk about Henry, and to exchange harmless hypocrisies, and the men betook themselves to the library to smoke and to discuss plots that are known as enterprises.