"Do you know, Jim, what I'm sorriest for ?" said I."At this rate, I can't be best man at your marriage." "My marriage!" he repeated, echoing the sigh.

"No marriage for me now.
I'm going right down to-night to break it to her.

I think that's what's shaken me all day.

I feel as if I had had no right (after I was engaged) to operate so widely." "Well, you know, Jim, it was my doing, and you must lay the blame on me," said I.
"Not a cent of it!" he cried.

"I was as eager as yourself, only not so bright at the beginning.