"It 'ud wear the life out of a man.

I've a good mind to throw the whole thing up and clear out! I could do it easy enough wi' my means.

A clear track--and no more o' this infernal anxiety." He reflected, as he made a poor show of eating his breakfast, on the ease with which he could get away from Highmarket and from England.
Being a particularly astute man of business, Mallalieu had taken good care that all his eggs were not in one basket.

He had many baskets--his Highmarket basket was by no means the principal one.

Indeed all that Mallalieu possessed in Highmarket was his share of the business and his private house.