'Charge It'

would you call his mainspring?' he asked. -'The desire to win money and its power. Mind you, I wouldn't call that a high motive, but in a young man it's a kind of a mainspring that sets him a-going and keeps the works busy until he can get better motive power. In Harry it's broken.' -'You're right--it was busted long ago, ' said Henry Delance. -'Some one has got to contrive a new mainspring for the sons of millionaires--they're so plenty these days.' -'There's the desire to be respectable, ...