"Are you going to stay in Shagarack?"
"Yes."
"It's a deuced shame! —"
"What do you make of this sentence, Mr. Cool? —"
But Bob declined to construe, and took himself off, with a hearty slap on Winthrop's shoulder, and a hearty shake of his hand.
"He's so strong, there's no use in trying to fight him into reason," he remarked to Rufus as he went off.
"What do you suppose Bob Cool would make of your Platonic quotation?" said Rufus.
"What do you make of it?" said Winthrop after a slight pause.
"Eremitical philosophy! — Do you admire it?"
"I was thinking mamma would," said Winthrop.