Are ye no afraid the folk might laugh ?" "No sir: they don't laugh when papa says it." "Ah ha, ah ha! um h'm!" Mr.Daly smiled.

"I never knew before," said he, "that my boy intended to follow my profession." The ladies were weary, and retired to their state rooms shortly after tea, but the gentlemen sought the open air again and paced the deck for some time.
"Have a cigar, sir ?" asked Mr.Lilburn, addressing Mr.Daly.
"Thank you, no; I don't smoke." "Ah ha! um h'm! In that you seem to be of one mind with my friends here, the Dinsmores and Travilla," remarked Lilburn, lighting one for himself and placing it between his lips.

"I wonder now if you know what you miss by your abstinence ?" "Well, sir, as to that, I know what some of my friends and acquaintance would have missed if they had abstained from the use of the weed.

One would have missed a terrible dyspepsia that laid him in his grave in the prime of life; another cancer of the lip which did the same by him after years of horrible suffering." "Ah ha! um h'm! ah ha! But surely those were rare cases ?" "I think not very." "You don't think the majority of those who use it feel any ill effects ?" "I do indeed; though probably comparatively few are aware that tobacco is the cause of their ailments." "Doubtless that is the case," remarked Mr.Dinsmore.

"I was a moderate smoker for years before I discovered that I was undermining my constitution by the indulgence; at length, however, I became convinced of that fact, and gave it up at once: for that reason and for the sake of the example to my boy here, who has been willing to profit by his father's experience, and abstain altogether." "I have never used the weed in any way," said Horace, Jr.
"And I," remarked Travilla, "abandoned its use about the same time that Dinsmore did, and for the same reasons.