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Updated: June 13, 2025
Did you suppose, that, by the sole power of his will, he would make up the deficit in the Mutual Credit's cash, and rehabilitate your father?" "No, I am not quite mad yet." "Well, then, could he do more than promise you his most ardent and devoted co-operation?" But he did not allow her to proceed. "And how do I know," he exclaimed, "that he is not trifling with me?
I've been fighting you, calling myself a fool for weeks. Come along, young fellow, don't hang back, and for your credit's sake close your lips so you won't look like a case of arrested development. First we'll say good-bye to the hash-hole and the white apron and then I'll take you up to your sky parlor and we'll talk things over." "God!" said Dickie faintly.
"But couldn't your brother, for his own credit's sake, keep you in his house and put you under treatment?" "My good friend, I should die under it. I revel in degradation. I luxuriate in self-contempt. My time is short, and I want to pass it away speedily. This life suits me, for I seldom have my senses, and there is only the early morning to dread. I think then think, think, think.
Yet this is so commonly dwelt upon especially by the screws who give Waiters the least that denial is vain; and we are obliged, for our credit's sake, to carry our heads as if we were going into a business, when of the two we are much more likely to go into a union.
Half the secrets of Seville are in my hands; did I choose to speak I could set a score of noble houses to broil and bloodshed. But I do not speak, I am paid to keep silent; and when I am not paid, still I keep silent for my credit's sake. Hundreds of women think me their saviour, I know them for my dupes. But mark you, I do not push this game too far.
This thought, at first artificially raised, as little more than a mental exercise, became by stages a genuine conviction; and while her heart enforced, her reason regretted the necessity of abstaining from self-sacrifice the being obliged, despite his curious escape from the first attempt, to lime Swithin's young wings again solely for her credit's sake.
We are now engaged upon a common work; and something tells me, that, before long, we shall know what has become of the Mutual Credit's millions."
So that it was not until evening was well advanced that Sunset learned that Ford was no longer a potential menace within its meager boundaries. Bill took a long breath, observed meaningly that "He'd better go whilst his credit's good, by hokey!" and for the first time that day sat down with his back toward an outer door.
"Oh, run along!" scoffed Miss Weinstein. "A person would think you had a husband to get a grouch every time you get reckless to the extent of a new waist. You're your own boss. And you know your credit's good. Honestly, it would be a shame to let this chance slip. You're not getting tight in your old age, are you?" "N-no," faltered Effie, "but " "Then come on," urged Miss Weinstein energetically.
To begin with, anyone less like a parson it would be hard to pick in a crowd, and, besides, I remembered some of his language to the highwaymen. "It ought to be hereabouts," he went on meditatively. "And if it should turn out to be my parish we must make an effort to get your money back, if only for our credit's sake, hey?"
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