"Did he?" said my guardian with a passing shade of vexation on his face. "But there you have the man. There you have the man! There is nothing mercenary in that with him. He has no idea of the value of money. He introduces Rick, and then he is good friends with Mr. Vholes and borrows five pounds of him. He means nothing by it and thinks nothing of it. He told you himself, I'll be bound, my dear?"

"Did he?" said my guardian with a passing shade of vexation on his face. "But there you have the man! He has no idea of the value of money. He told you himself, I'll be bound, my dear?"
