Well, that is just like a woman." With savage strides he was about marching back to the beach, when Mrs.
Cliff stopped him.
"Now, don't make everybody unhappy, Ralph," she said, "but just listen to me.

I want to tell you all about this matter." It took about a quarter of an hour to make clear to the ruffled mind of Ralph the powerful, and in Mrs.Cliffs eyes the imperative, reasons for the sudden and unpremeditated matrimonial arrangements of the morning.
But before she had finished, the boy grew quieter, and there appeared upon his face some expressions of astute sagacity.
"Well," said he, "when you first put this business to me, it was tail side up, but now you've got heads up it looks a little different.

He will be drowned, as like as not, and then I suppose we can call our souls our own, and if, besides that, we can call a lot of those chunks of gold our own, we ought not to grumble.

All right.

I won't forbid the banns.