But he can not; and how foolish to revolve expedients.

It is more hopeless than a bad marriage in a land where there is no Doctors' Commons.

He has taken the ship to wife, for better or for worse, for calm or for gale; and she is not to be shuffled off.

With yards akimbo, she says unto him scornfully, as the old beldam said to the little dwarf:--"Help yourself" And all this, and more than this, is a calm..