"
"What does Your Majesty please to want? You can't smoke more than you do; you
won't drink; you're a gross feeder; and you dress in the dark, by the look of
you. You wouldn't keep a horse the other day when I suggested, because, you
said, it might fall lame, and whenever you cross the street you take a hansom.
Even you are not foolish enough to suppose that theatres and all the live
things you can by thereabouts mean Life. What earthly need have you for money?"
"It's there, bless its golden heart," said Dick. "It's there all the time.
Providence has sent me nuts while I have teeth to crack 'em with. I haven't
yet found the nut I wish to crack, but I'm keeping my teeth filed. Perhaps some
day you and I will go for a walk round the wide earth."
"With no work to do, nobody to worry us, and nobody to compete with? You would
be unfit to speak to in a week. Besides, I shouldn't go. I don't care to
profit by the price of a man's soul,--for that's what it would mean. Dick, it's
no use arguing. You're a fool."
"Don't see it. When I was on that Chinese pig-boat, our captain got credit for
saving about twenty-five thousand very seasick little pigs, when our old tramp
of a steamer fell foul of a timber-junk.
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