"You won't --"

"I've got him."

"There's one place at Asphodel where I've been a good deal --
Mr. Haye's -- he's an old friend of my father's and thinks a
world of him. You'll like him -- he's been very kind to me."

"What shall I like him for -- besides that?" said Winthrop.

"O he's a man of great wealth, and has a beautiful place
there, and keeps a very fine house, and he's very hospitable.
He's always very glad to see me; and it's rather a pleasant
change from Glanbally's _vis-à-vis_ and underdone apple-pies. He
is one of the rich, rich Mannahatta merchants, but he has a
taste for better things too. Father knows him -- they met some
years ago in the Legislature, and father has done him some
service or other since. He has no family -- except one or two
children not grown up -- his wife is dead -- so I suppose he was
glad of somebody to help him eat his fine dinners. He said
some very handsome things to encourage me. He might have
offered me the use of his library -- but he did not."

"Perhaps he hasn't one."

"Yes he has -- a good one."

"It's got into the wrong hands, I'm afraid," said Winthrop.

"He has a _little_ the character of being hard-fisted. At least