And I can't get it out of his head." Margaret's smile irritated him still further.

"All great men are more or less rude and crude, aren't they ?" said she.

"They are impatient of the trifles we lay so much stress on." "So, you think Josh is a great man ?" "I don't know," replied Margaret, with exasperating deliberateness.

"I want to find out." "And if you decide that he is, you'll marry him ?" "Perhaps.

You suggested it the other day." "In jest," said Arkwright, unaccountably angry with her, with himself, with Joshua.