However, now to business, Mr.Henderson;" and he looked inquiringly at Dick, as much as to say, I am ready to hear you.
"We had better see, I think," proceeded Dick, "and make arrangements about these new leases." "I shall expect to be bribed for each of them, Mr.Richard." "Bribed!" exclaimed the other, "ha, ha, ha! that's good." "Why, do you think there's anything morally wrong or dishonorable in a bribe ?" asked the other, with a very serious face.
"Come, come, Mr.Travers," said Dick, "a joke's a joke; only don't put so grave a face on you when you ask such a question.

However, as you say yourself, now to business--about these leases." "I trust," continued Travers, "that I am both an honest man and a gentleman, yet I expect a bribe for every lease." "Well, then," replied Henderson, "it is not generally supposed that either an honest man or a gentleman--" "Would take a bribe ?--eh ?" "Well, d--n it, no; not exactly that either; but come, let us understand each other.

If you will be wilful on it, why a wilful man, they say, must have his way.

Bribery, however--rank bribery--is a--" "Crime to which neither an honest man nor a gentleman would stoop.

You see I anticipate what you are about to say; you despise bribery, Mr.
Henderson ?" "Sir," replied the other, rather warmly, "I trust that I am a gentleman and an honest man, too." "But still, a wilful man, Mr.Henderson must have his way, you know.
Well, of course, you are a gentleman and an honest man." He then rose, and touching the bell, said to the servant who answered it: "Send in the man named Darby Skinadre." If that miserable wretch was thin and shrivelled-looking when first introduced to our readers, he appeared at the present period little else than the shadow of what he had been.