I ask your pardon, Jim.
And you don't hold any grudge ?" "Indeed I don't.

I may be a fool--I guess I am--but not that kind." "Thanks.

Well, there's one objection out of the way, then, only I don't want you to think that I've hove overboard that 'responsibility' I was so easy and fresh about takin' on my shoulders.

It's there yet; and I'll see you squared with Caroline afore this v'yage is over, if I live." His friend frowned.
"You needn't mind," he said.

"I prefer that you drop the whole miserable business." "Well, maybe, but--Jim, you've taken hold of these electric batteries that doctors have sometimes?
It's awful easy to grab the handles of one of those contraptions, but when you want to drop 'em you can't.