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"Yes," said the major, when he had heard Cornish's story across the table, and during the consumption of a perfectly astonishing luncheon "yes; half the trouble in this world comes from the incapacity of the ordinary human being to mind his own business." He operated on a creaming Camembert cheese with much thoughtfulness, and then spoke again.
"My boy," said Jim, "cheer up. If gloom takes hold of you like this while we're still running before a favoring wind, it'll bother you to keep feeling worse and worse, as you ought, as we approach the real thing. Cheer up!" "Oh, I'm all right!" said I. "I was just trying to make out Cornish's position." "Let's make out our own," he replied, "that's the first thing.
But no reference was made to those two gentlemen, and Lord Ferriby, who, as a chairman of many boards, was a master of the art of conciliation and the decent closing of both eyes to unsightly facts, received Cornish's suggestion with a polite and avuncular pooh-pooh.
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