“I s'pose you'll like England with its 'ristocrats and kings so well that you won't come back to these ordinary United States.”
Quincy knew that Mr. Strout wished he would stay in England, so he replied,
“Oh, no. I'm coming back sure. I know a little about weighing groceries and I've decided to come back and go into business.”
“What good will your book larnin' do you then?”
“For one thing, they teach something besides dead languages in colleges nowadays. I studied moral philosophy, which points out the difference between right and wrong, between honesty and dishonesty, between fifteen ounces of butter and one ounce of wood and paper, and sixteen ounces of butter to the pound.”
With this parting shot, Quincy joined Tom in front of the store and they started for Boston, from which port the Gallia was to sail two days later.
CHAPTER XXII. — ALICE'S DREAM
“Do you believe in dreams, Aunt Ella?”