If you hate a man, you lay awake nights biting your mattress, just thinking how you hate him; an' if you love a woman--good Lord, how you do LOVE her!" "But--but!" exclaimed Condy, "I don't see how you can want to do anything else.

Why, you're living sixty to the minute when you're playing a game like that!" "Oh, I ain't dead yet!" answered the Captain.

"I got a few schemes left that I could get fun out of." "How can you wait a minute!" exclaimed Blix breathlessly.

"Why don't you get a ship right away--to-morrow--and go right off on some other adventure ?" "Well, I can't just now," returned the Captain, blowing the smoke from his cigarette through his ears.

"There's a good many reasons; one of 'em is that I've just been married.".