Just before twelve Captain Bangs did ask a question, his first one.
"Well, John," he said, looking up at the clock in the steeple of the Methodist Church, "it's about time for us to be thinkin' about takin' in cargo.

Where shall we eat this noon?
At the High Cliff again, or do you want to tackle Darius Holt's?
Course you understand I'm game for 'most anything if you say so, and 'most anything's what we're liable to get at that Holt shebang.

I don't want you to think I've got any personal grudge.

When it comes to that I'm--ho! ho!--well, I'm a good deal in the frame of mind Kenelm Parker was at the revival meetin' some year ago.
Kenelm just happened in and took one of the back seats.

The minister--he was a stranger in town--was walkin' up and down the aisles tryin' to influence the mourners to come forward.