Quotation from: The Little Lady of the Big House

Written by: Jack London

"Not to me," Young Dick minimized his generosity. "Thirty thousand
goes into a million thirty-three times, and a million's only a year's
turnover of my money."

But Tim Hagan never lived to see his father a saloon keeper. Two days
later, on a trestle, the lads were fired out of an empty box-car by a
brake-man who should have known better. The trestle spanned a dry
ravine. Young Dick looked down at the rocks seventy feet below and
demurred.