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Well, why, don't you jump?
Why do you sit there in that placid fashion, when----" "Because I have later news." "Later news?
Oh, come--later news than fifty days, brought steaming hot from London by the----" "My news is only ten days old." "Oh, Mun-chausen, hear the maniac talk! Where did you get it ?" "Got it out of a shark." "Oh, oh, oh, this is too much! Front! call the police bring the gun -- raise the town! All the asylums in Christendom have broken loose in the single person of----" "Sit down! And collect yourself.

Where is the use in getting excited?
Am I excited?
There is nothing to get excited about.

When I make a statement which I cannot prove, it will be time enough for you to begin to offer hospitality to damaging fancies about me and my sanity." "Oh, a thousand, thousand pardons! I ought to be ashamed of myself, and I am ashamed of myself for thinking that a little bit of a circumstance like sending a shark to England to fetch back a market report----" "What does your middle initial stand for, sir ?" "Andrew.