If
Jarvis goes, Jessie goes, that's flat."
"I think it will be an excellent plan, Mr. Bad Temper, and I've no doubt
that we can manage it."
"Don't say 'we' when you talk of managing it. I tell you I'm entirely on
the defensive until some one robs me, then I'll take what is my
neighbor's if I can get it. If it were not for my promise to Sir Tom, I
wouldn't leave the farm for a minute! And I would establish a quarantine
against all giants for at least five years."
"You know you like Jarvis. He is one of the best."
"That's all right, Polly. He's as fine as silk, but he isn't fine enough
for our Jane yet."
CHAPTER LX
"I TOLD YOU SO"
It may be the limitless horizon, it may be the comradery of confinement,
it may be the old superstition of a plank between one and eternity, or
it may be some occult influence of ship and ocean; but certain it is
that there is no such place in all the world as a deck of a
transatlantic liner for softening young hearts, until they lose all
semblance of shape, and for melting them into each other so that out of
twain there comes but one.
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