“What you do for money you do badly.”

“Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want.”

“I say, you do have a heart!""Sometimes," he replied, "when I have the time.”

“Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.”

“It is certain," exclaimed my uncle in a tone of triumph. "But silence, do you hear me? silence upon the whole subject; and let no one get before us in this design of discovering the centre of the earth.”

“What!You know German?”

“With time and thought, one can do a good job.”