Now, what medicine do you take ?--quinine?
Here are ten grains.
That's right.

You'll make a good patient." "My dear madame," he began.
"You musn't speak," she interrupted, "that is, in protest.

Otherwise, you can talk." "But the plantation--" "A dead man is of no use on a plantation.

Don't you want to know about _me_?
My vanity is hurt.

Here am I, just through my first shipwreck; and here are you, not the least bit curious, talking about your miserable plantation.