“‘All men are liars,’ said the Psalmist, so why should I be an exception?”
“You are very good at quoting the Bible, aren’t you? Why don’t you live up to it?”
“I should be the better man if I did.”
“Will you resign at Nagasaki, then?”
“I shall do exactly what your father orders me to do.”
“That is precisely the answer I should have expected from a mud-wallower who came to us from the gutter.”
“You are mistaken. I lived up on a hill.”
“Well, I give you warning, that if you don’t leave this yacht you will regret it.”
“I shall probably regret the tender memories of your conversation, Miss Hemster; but if you think to frighten me I beg to point out that it is really yourself who is in danger, as you might know if experience taught the class of persons it is said to teach. You have called me a brute and a beast and all the rest of it, and have partly persuaded me that you are right. Now the danger to you lies in the fact that you will go just a step too far on one of these occasions, and then I shall pick you up and throw you overboard. Now allow me to say that you have about reached the limit, likewise to inform you that I shall not resign.”