But I'm darned if they're as interesting.

Here I am, talking too much.

Why don't you check me?
When I do get a chance to talk to anyone I run on turrible.

If you've done your tea I've a few little things you might like to look at--picked 'em up in the queer corners I used to be poking my nose into." Captain Jim's "few little things" turned out to be a most interesting collection of curios, hideous, quaint and beautiful.

And almost every one had some striking story attached to it.
Anne never forgot the delight with which she listened to those old tales that moonlit evening by that enchanted driftwood fire, while the silver sea called to them through the open window and sobbed against the rocks below them.
Captain Jim never said a boastful word, but it was impossible to help seeing what a hero the man had been--brave, true, resourceful, unselfish.