"Stop palavering! You can cut out 'dear.'"
"Let us talk reasonably. I came here to ask whether you will remain a shareholder in the works, or withdraw your money?"
"I'll withdraw every bawbee out o' them. Your sisters can do as they like. And may I ask, what you are going to do? Become a miner, and carry a pick and a dinner-pail? That would be a proper ending for Robert Campbell."
"I am going to join my brother David in a banking business in San Francisco."
"Your brother David! Your brother David! So he is in California, too? Dod! I might have known it—the very place for the like o' him."
"He is one of the princes of Californian finance. He dwells in a palace. He is worth many millions of dollars."
"Dollars!" and she spit the word out of her mouth with inexpressible scorn—"dollars! what kind o' money is that? I wouldn't gie you a copper half-penny for your dollar."
"A dollar is worth just one hundred half-pennies."
"I'm not believing you. Why should I? And pray how did you foregather wi' your runawa' brother?"
"He is Theodora's neighbor, and she is educating his daughters."