"Lord, what brutes we are," he said.

"There was the trouble over the Bluebird claim down in Washington.

Did I talk about that ?" Seaforth crossed over and sat down on the arm of his comrade's chair.
His expression was somewhat whimsical, but there was a suggestion of tenderness in his eyes, for he saw the direction in which Alton's thoughts were tending, and that he should speak of such matters to him betokened the closeness of the bond between them.
"I don't think you need worry about it, Harry." he said.
"No ?" said Alton sternly.

"Are those the things you would like a dainty English lady who knows nothing of what we have to do now and then to hear ?" Seaforth smiled again as he said, "Miss Deringham struck me as an especially sensible young woman.

Now you need not get savage, for I am speaking respectfully, but I fancy that Miss Deringham knows almost as much about the ins and outs of life as many bush ranchers of seventy.
Young women brought up as she has been in the old country not infrequently do, and as it happened you mentioned nothing about that last affair in the bush; while though one or two incidents were somewhat startling, there are, I fancy, girls in the old country who would be rather inclined to look with approval on--the type of man she might have reason for supposing you to be.