I was only a business possibility." "That's unjust," he charged her.

"I don't see how you could accuse me of regarding you in any other way than as the dearest and the sweetest and the most beautiful girl in all the world, the wisest and the most sensible, the most faithful, the most charming, the most delightful, the most everything that is desirable." "Wait just a moment," she told him, very coldly indeed; with almost extravagant coldness, in fact, as she beat out of her consciousness the enticing epithets he had bestowed upon her.

"Do you mean to say that never in your calculations did you consider that if you married me my father would vote his stock with yours--I believe that's the way he puts it--and give you command or whatever it is of your company ?" "Well," considered Sam, brought to a standstill and put straight upon his honor, "I can't deny that it did seem to me a very satisfactory thing that my father-in-law should own enough stock in the company--" "That will do," she interrupted him icily.

"That is precisely what I have charged.

We will consider this subject as ended, Mr.Turner; as one never to be referred to again." "We'll do nothing of the sort," returned Sam flat-footedly.