'They're as common as blackberries: you can pick 'em up for three-pound-ten a head.' 'I wouldn't do it under fifty if I were a sawbones,' ejaculated John.
'And then Michael,' continued Morris, 'is in the very thick of it.

All his clients have come to grief; his whole business is rotten eggs.

If any man could arrange it, he could; and depend upon it, he has his plan all straight; and depend upon it, it's a good one, for he's clever, and be damned to him! But I'm clever too; and I'm desperate.

I lost seven thousand eight hundred pounds when I was an orphan at school.' 'O, don't be tedious,' interrupted John.

'You've lost far more already trying to get it back.'.