What if he should be a prisoner ?" "Why, then, the plantations will do that which the battle hath left undone.

So that, dead or captive, you see it is all one." And, lifting his glass to the light, he closed one eye, the better to survey with the other the rich colour of the wine.

Not that Joseph was curious touching that colour, but he was a juggler in gestures, and at that moment he could think of no other whereby he might so naturally convey the utter indifference of his feelings in the matter.
"Joseph, you are wrong," said Gregory, turning his back upon the window and facing his brother.

"It is not all one.

What if he return some day ?" "Oh, what if--what if--what if!" cried Joseph testily.