First plan and best plan—townward trip be hanged!
You 're due at your big brother's—pay that debt,
Then owe me not a farthing! Order eggs—
And who knows but there 's trout obtainable?"
The fine man looks wellnigh malignant: then—
"Sir, please subdue your manner! Debts are debts:
I pay mine—debts of this sort—certainly.
What do I care how you regard your gains,
Want them or want them not? The thing I want
Is—not to have a story circulate