How'd they know, the poor dubs, that a poet wasn't something a business man had ought to be polite and grovelling to?

I had a notion Ben would see the right of it where these poor dubs of husbands wouldn't-orwouldn't dast say it if they did.

"Tellin' th' poor dubs th' stock was goin' down with one hand an' buyin' it in with th' other," said the janitor, lucidly.