Any woman has a pretty smile when she wants it." "You haven't a grain of sentiment, confound you." "They don't teach sentiment on the farm, and there's where I began this unappreciative existence of mine.

But I am able to think a lot sometimes." "That's about all a fellow has to do on a farm, isn't it ?" "That and die, I believe." "And get married ?" "Naturally, in order to think more.

A man has to think for two after he's married, you see." "Quite sarcastic that.

You don't think much of women, I fancy." "Not in the plural." Captain Shadburn was nearing them on the way from the chart-house, and the young men accosted him, Veath inquiring: "Captain, who is the tall old gentleman you were talking to forward awhile ago ?" "That is Lord Huntingford, going over to straighten out some complications for the Crown.

He is a diplomat of the first water." "Where are these complications, may I ask ?" "Oh, in China, I think.