"His business is large--extending every year; but such a head as he has, and so prudent with all his daring!" Then one man draws another aside, and walks a little apart, and with head inclined into his neighbour's ear, he says, "Thornton's business is large; but he has spent his profits in extending it; he has no capital laid by; his machinery is new within these two years, and has cost him--we won't say what!--a word to the wise!" But that Mr. Harrison was a croaker,--a man who had succeeded to his father's trade-made fortune, which he had feared to lose by altering his mode of business to any having a larger scope; yet he grudged every penny made by others more daring and far-sighted.

'His business is large - extending every year; but he's prudent for all his daring.' Then one man draws another aside, and says quietly, 'Thornton's business is large; but he has spent his profits in extending it and buying new machinery; he has no capital laid by.'
