'About all you ever cared to do,' rejoined his friend, who was rather disposed to treat him mockingly.
'Don't attempt to act my Mentor.'
'Why?'
'Because I should make but a sorry Telemachus.'
'Then it seems all a settled thing between them!'
'What?'
'How dull you are! Marriage?'
'Ach Gott! it looks like it.'
'Then you have been a trifle late of taking the field?'
'Nay,' replied Morganstjern, smoking his meerschaum with vicious energy. 'I was the first, but when this fellow Baronald came, I found myself instantly at a discount.'