"With Mr. Cassilis," said Gilead Beck, "you sign cheques, and he gives you dividends. It's like Ile, because you can go on pumping."
"He understands more than any other living man," said Lawrence.
"He is in the inner track, sir," said Mr. Beck.
"And a man," said Lawrence, "ready to take in his friends with himself."
"A high-toned and a whole-souled man," said Gilead Beck, with enthusiasm. "That man, sir, I do believe would take in the hull world."
CHAPTER XXIV.
"I had rather hear a brazen candlestick turn'd,
Or a dry wheel grate on an axle-tree;
And that would set my teeth nothing on edge.
Nothing so much as mincing poetry."