Here, boy, bring that drink.

What have you been doing out there?
Have I got to drink alone?
Well, I'm equal to any emergency." He shuddered as he swallowed the whisky, but recovered instantly, and with a circular movement, expressive of his satisfaction, rubbed his growing paunch.
Witherspoon remained three days at home and then resumed his place at the store.

With a promptness in which he took a pride, he sent a check to the detective.

He did this even before he went down to the Colossus.

The physician had urged him to put aside all business cares, and the merchant had replied with a contemptuous grunt.