Oh, I know he has gone through enough to make him peculiar; I know all about that, but I don't see the sense of keeping up that peculiarity.

He is aimless, and he doesn't want an aim urged upon him." "But, father, he has made his newspaper a success." "Ah, but what does it amount to?
Within ten years he might make a hundred thousand dollars out of it, but"-- "Oh, surely more than that," she insisted.
"Well, suppose he does make more than that; say that he may make two hundred thousand.

And even then what does it amount to in comparison with what I offer ?" "But you know he wants to be independent." "Independent!" he repeated.

"I'll swear I don't understand that sort of independence." "Well," she said, with a consoling sigh, "it will come out all right after a while." They were sitting in Mrs.Witherspoon's room.

The footman announced that Mr.Brooks was waiting in the library.