The Hobbit JR Tolkien - Mr Collins

his people. They aided you in yourdistress, and in recompense you have thusfar brought ruin only, though doubtlessundesigned.”Now these were fair words and true, ifproudly and grimly spoken; and Bilbothought that Thorin would at once admitwhat justice was in them. He did not, ofcourse, expect that any one wouldremember that it was he who discoveredall by himself the dragon’s weak spot; andthat was just as well, for no one ever did.But also he did not reckon with the powerthat gold has upon which a dragon haslong brooded, nor with dwarvish hearts.Long hours in the past days Thorin hadspent in the treasury, and the lust of it washeavy on him. Though he had huntedchiefly for the Arkenstone, yet he had an