You'll come and eat your dinner along with me, Sol, somewheres or another.' 'Not to-day, Ned!' said the old man quickly, and appearing to be unaccountably startled by the proposition.

'Not to-day.

I couldn't do it!' 'Why not ?' returned the Captain, gazing at him in astonishment.
'I--I have so much to do.

I--I mean to think of, and arrange.

I couldn't do it, Ned, indeed.