Don't think about it, old fellow; that's your best plan. / But I can't think of any thing else, said Tom. What the deuce is the good of telling a fellow not to think about it?

This passage reveals what money-love really is. A root is hidden in the evil; what it is we eventually see from the growth it sends up (snares and temptations). Money-love produces many hurts, worries, pains of conscience, and hurtful temptations which result in spiritual drifting.

Foreground and background strongly contrast.

The avoidance of circuity of action is an alternative defence pleaded by the defendants to a salvage action when the wrongdoing ship in a collision and the salving ship which saves the 'innocent' ship are under the same ownership.