"God knows it's not because I think myself any better than anybody else, or because I think a man does for himself by marrying a--by marrying up here.

But I just couldn't do it, that's all." "No offense," said Peter.

"Every man must chop his own trail.

I won't say but what you're right.

But what are you going to do?
A man can't live and die alone." "I don't know," said Ambrose.
"Tell you what," said Peter; "you take the furs out on the steamboat." "I won't," said Ambrose quickly.