No More Learning

'Must be glad to get the girl off his hands.

Blayne. Caddy has money--lucky devil. Place at Home, too.

Doone. He comes of first-class stock. 'Can't quite understand his being
caught by a Colonel's daughter, and (looking cautiously round room. )
Black Infantry at that! No offence to you, Blayne.

Blayne. (Stiffly. ) Not much, thaanks.

Curtiss. (Quoting motto of Irregular Moguls. ) "We are what we are," eh,
old man?
But Gadsby was such a superior animal as a rule. Why didn't he
go Home and pick his wife there?

Mackesy. They are all alike when they come to the turn into the
straight. About thirty a man begins to get sick of living alone.

Curtiss. And of the eternal mutton--chop in the morning.

Doone. It's a dead goat as a rule, but go on, Mackesy.

Mackesy. If a man's once taken that way nothing will hold him, Do you
remember Benoit of your service, Doone? They transferred him to Tharanda
when his time came, and he married a platelayer's daughter, or something
of that kind. She was the only female about the place.

Doone. Yes, poor brute. That smashed Benoit's chances of promotion
altogether.