But it's all in vain.

I humor my father by sitting here, but I shall only stay long enough to convince him that I am right, and then I shall take to agriculture." "Will you buy land in this country ?" inquired Anton.
"Not I," returned Fink; "I prefer riding half the day without coming to the end of my property." "Then you mean to return to America ?" "There or elsewhere.

I am not particular as to hemisphere.

Meanwhile, I live like a monk, as you see," said Fink, laughing, as he mixed for himself a fiery potion, and pushed the bottle to Anton.

"Brew for yourself, my lad," said he; "and let us chat away merrily, as becomes good fellows and reconciled foes." From that evening forth Fink treated our hero with a friendship that he showed to none of the other clerks.