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who was not in very good humor, broke out,
"
What the deuce, Harry, did you go on in that style to the Montagues
for?"
"
Go on?" cried Harry. "Why shouldn't I try to make a pleasant evening?
And besides, ain't I going to do those things? What difference does it
make about the mood and tense of a mere verb? Didn't uncle tell me only
last Saturday, that I might as well go down to Arizona and hunt for
diamonds? A fellow might as well make a good impression as a poor one."
"
Nonsense. You'll get to believing your own romancing by and by."
Well, you'll see. When Sellers and I get that appropriation, I'll show
"
you an establishment in town and another on the Hudson and a box at the
opera."
"Yes, it will be like Col. Sellers' plantation at Hawkeye. Did you ever
see that?"
"Now, don't be cross, Phil. She's just superb, that little woman. You
never told me."
"
Who's just superb?" growled Philip, fancying this turn of the
conversation less than the other.
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