"With a broomstick."
"Why Winthrop, that's beneath you!"
"I have been thinking so lately," said Winthrop. "It wasn't, in the days when I couldn't afford to pay any one for doing it; and those days reached down to a very late point."
"Afford!" said Rufus, standing still in his walk; — "Why you have made money enough ever since you began practice, to afford such a thing as that."
"Ay — if I could have put it all on the floor."
"Where had you to put it?"
"I had Mr. Inchbald to reward for his long trust in me, and Mr. Herder to reimburse for his kindness, — and some other sources of expenditure to meet."
"Mr. Herder could have been paid out of the costs of this lawsuit."
"No, he couldn't."
"And thereupon, you would recommend the profession of a street-sweeper to me!" said Rufus, beginning his walk with renewed energy.