I am sorry you refuse so advantageous an investment of money; for right sure am I that no other investment you can make will turn out as this would have done.

But, as you have declined, I will not offer a share in my good fortune to any one else; but prosecute the work to my own advantage." "I thought you hadn't the capital to do that," said Jasper, speaking with ill-repressed eagerness.
"Nor have I," coolly answered Martin.

"The proposition I was about to make was this--an advance of twenty thousand dollars capital on your part, to constitute you an equal partner in the mine.

But this you decline." "Certainly! certainly! I would not have entertained it for a moment." "Exactly.

So I have already inferred.