I take it that a yacht is a bad place for a nursery, and inconvenient for one's old boots.

When a man has a home fixed for him by circumstances,--as you will have,--he gravitates towards it, let his own supposed predilections be what they may.

Circumstances are stronger than predilections." "You're a philosopher." "I was always more sober than you, Fred." "I wish you had been the elder,--on the condition of the younger brother having a tidy slice out of the property to make himself comfortable." "But I am not the elder, and you must take the position with all the encumbrances.

I see nothing for it but to ask Miss O'Hara to wait.

If my uncle lives long the probability is that one or the other of you will change your minds, and that the affair will never come off." When the younger and wiser brother gave this advice he did not think it all likely that Miss O'Hara would change her mind.