I believe that when my time comes I must go, that this hour is foreordained and that nothing I can do will either hasten or postpone it by one moment.

Your circumstances are different.

You are quite young.
If you stay here and approach your father in a proper spirit, I have no doubt but that he will forget all the rough words he said to you the other day, for which indeed you know you gave him some provocation.

Is it worth while throwing up such prospects and undertaking such dangers for the chance of finding a rare flower?
I say this to my own disadvantage, since I might find it hard to discover anyone else who would risk L2,000 upon such a venture, but I do urge you to weigh my words." Young Somers looked at me for a little while, then he broke into one of his hearty laughs and exclaimed, "Whatever else you may be, Mr.Allan Quatermain, you are a gentleman.

No bullion-broker in the City could have put the matter more fairly in the teeth of his own interests." "Thank you," I said.
"For the rest," he went on, "I too am tired of England and want to see the world.