It will be a matter for consideration, indeed, whether we shall not name this great discovery after you." "So it was for this," Burton exclaimed, "that you offered me that thousand pounds!" "We were to blame," Mr.Bomford admitted.
"Very much to blame," the professor echoed.
"Nevertheless," Mr.Bomford insisted, "it is an incident which you must forget.

It is man's first impulse, is it not, to make the best bargain he can for himself?
We tried it and failed.

For the future we abandon all ideas of that sort, Mr.Burton.We associate you, both nominally and in effect, with our enterprise, in which we will be equal partners.
The professor will find the capital, I will find the commercial experience, you shall hand over the bean.

I promise you that before five years have gone by, you shall be possessed of wealth beyond any dreams you may ever have conceived." Burton moved uneasily in his chair.
"But I have never conceived any dreams of wealth at all," he objected.
"I have no desire whatever to be rich.

Wealth seems to me to be only an additional excitement to vulgarity.