You and I must shove on oilskins, Blair and see if we can keep our legs." This was almost the end of the night's conversation.

Those good mission-folks, as has been seen, contrived to get on without saying either clever things or bitter things, and persons who possess the higher intellect may fancy that this was a sign of a poor spirit.
Perhaps; and yet I have read somewhere that the poor in spirit may not fare so very badly in the long run..