"I don't know that it is," Ralph answered. "One cannot live on sentiment."
"And yet sentiment plays a great part in one's life."
"No doubt it does, but with the poor the first concern is how to live."
"Then, sentiment apart, you honestly think the place is not worth the money?"
"I'm sure it isn't. Jenkins told me not long ago that if he could not get his rent lowered he should give up the farm."
"And what about the quarry?"
"It will be worked out in half a dozen years at the outside."
"You think so?"
"I do honestly. I've no desire to do harm to the squire, though God knows he has been no friend to me. But twenty years' purchase at the present rental and dues would be an absurd price."
"I think it is rather stiff myself."