"From this time we shall play the man.
Life is too good to lose for nothing.

A mine is good, but there are better things than mines." "Meaning ?" said Brown.
"Men!" said Jack with emphasis.
"_And_," shouted Brown, slipping his arm round his wife, "women." "Brown," said Jack solemnly, "as my friend Pierre Lamont would say, 'you have reason.'".