"From my judgment of your character, which might be stated as the converse of that just now so happily applied to me."
"And do natures the opposite of that never act otherwise than rashly?"
"I hope so; for as the coolest are sometimes excited, so the hot may be sometimes cool."
"And don't I look cool?"
"You did when you came in," said Winthrop.
"I should think living on bread and milk might help that, in ordinary," said Rufus. "Just in my present condition it has rather a different effect. Well Governor, I've come to Mannahatta —"
"I see that," said Winthrop.
"I'll thank you not to interrupt me. I've come to Mannahatta — on a piece of business."
Winthrop waited, and Rufus after another cut of the bread and meat, went on.
"Governor, I'm going to quit engineering and take to another mode of making money."