"He was utterly ruined."
"He wouldn't have been ruined,--and couldn't have thought so if he'd known all he ought to have known. The South Central would have pulled him through a'most anything if he'd have understood how to play it."
"We don't think much of the South Central here now," said Paul.
"Ah;--that's because you've never above half spirit enough for a big thing. You nibble at it instead of swallowing it whole,--and then, of course, folks see that you're only nibbling. I thought that Melmotte would have had spirit."
"There is, I fear, no doubt that he had committed forgery. It was the dread of detection as to that which drove him to destroy himself."

"He was utterly ruined."
"The South Central would have pulled him through a'most anything if he'd understood how to play it."
"We don't think much of the South Central here now," said Paul.
"Ah; that's because you don't have spirit enough for a big thing. You nibble at it instead of swallowing it whole. I thought that Melmotte would have had spirit."
"He had committed forgery. It was the dread of detection which drove him to kill himself."
