fashion.
If a man ain't going to enjoy his property, what is he to enjoy?"

"All that some people enjoy is the making of it. You have done that,
you say. There is less pleasure to be got from wealth, even in the most
favourable circumstances, than those who haven't got it believe. They
who have it find that out, as you are doing.

"But I can fancy myself getting all the pleasure I want out of my
property, if only some things were different--if I had something else to
go with it. Other folks seem to take the comfort out of theirs as they
go along."

"They seem to; but how can you be sure as to the enjoyment they really
have? How many of your friends, do you suppose, suspect that you don't
get all the satisfaction out of yours that you seem to? Do you suppose
the lady who was saying so much in praise of your fine place just now,
has any idea that it is only a weariness to you?"

"I was telling her so as we came along. She says the reason I don't
enjoy it is because there is something else that I haven't got, that
ought to go along with it and I agreed with her there."

Again a furtive glance was sent towards Mr Snow's thoughtful face. He
smiled and shook his head.

"Yes, it is something else you want. It is always something else, and
ever will be till the end comes. That something else, if it is ever
yours, will bring disappointment with it. It will come as you don't
expect it or want it, or it will come too late. There is no good
talking. There is nothing in the world that it will do to make a
portion of."

Mr Green looked up at him with some curiosity and surprise. This
sounded very much like what he used to hear in conference meeting long
ago, but he had an idea that such remarks were inappropriate out of
meeting, and he wondered a little what could be Mr Snow's motive for
speaking in that way just then.

"As to making a portion of it, I don't know about that; but I do know
that there is considerable to be got out of money. What can't it get?
Or rather, I should say, what can be got without it? I don't say that
they who have the most of it are always best off, because other things
come in to worry them, maybe; but the chances are in favour of the man
that has all he wants to spend. You'll never deny that."

"That ain't just the way I would put it," said Mr Snow. "I would say
that the man who expects his property to make him happy, will be
disappointed. The amount he has got don't matter.