Now let me assure you, for the last time, that I really and truly shall become a planter, thanks to you, or in spite of you.

Do you want me for a partner ?" "But do you realize that I would be looked upon as the most foolish jackanapes in the South Seas if I took a young girl like you in with me here on Berande ?" he asked.
"No; decidedly not.

But there you are again, worrying about what idiots and the generally evil-minded will think of you.

I should have thought you had learned self-reliance on Berande, instead of needing to lean upon the moral support of every whisky-guzzling worthless South Sea vagabond." He smiled, and said,-- "Yes, that is the worst of it.

You are unanswerable.