23/43 "It's cold, and I hate a wind of any kind." "Hate a wind? It would do you good to be pitched in a gale about the coast of Skye. A fellow of your temperament has no business in these relaxing latitudes. You want tonics." "Too true, old man. I know myself at least as well as you know me." "Then what a contemptible creature you must be! If a man knows his weakness, he is inexcusable for not overcoming it." "A preposterous contradiction, allow me to say. |