Although he seemed arbit at first, a few minutes of talking exposed a decent and well-mannered human being.

Q: What are your company's terms? A: Net thirty, cash or check. [This answer means that the net total must be paid within 30 days; see Net D.]

… I trow it is enough to make a man forswear the very mother that bore him, and to wish that he had never had one, when one is cooped up in a gloomy hole like this, to watch a door within which strutteth a jackanapes too proud to speak civil to those that approach him.

If the tree grows up against the garden wall then either the tree will be crowded and stunted or the wall will be pushed out.