← They continued to behave very much as before, and when treated with generosity, simply took advantage of it. 🔊
← At heart, each of them was secretly wondering whether he could not somehow turn Jones's misfortune to his own advantage. 🔊
← The advantage of only having to feed themselves, and not having to support five extravagant human beings as well, was so great that it would have taken a lot of failures to outweigh it. 🔊