"O Lord! Fine fellows of your sort? You're right--I shouldn't have liked it."
"Some people have got to talk, whether they know what they're talking about or not."
"Just what I was thinking."
"Oh, come now, be a good fellow! What made you give up the sailmaking?"
"Oh, don't bother me! The business was all right, but the devil got into it somehow. It was my wife's fault."
"Your wife? Did she drink?"
"That would have been too much. No, I did all the drinking that was done, as is mostly the case, not the wife. But it was her fault just the same."
"Was it? What did she do?"
"Don't ask so many questions!"
"Have you got any childen?"