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I rule everything by the doctrine of averages so much consumed in one month, so much necessarily required in another; and I reduce everything to figures. Plumptree, my cook, when she shows me a result that I cannot understand or accept. And there are my books." Miss Granger waved her hand towards a row of most uncompromising-looking volumes of the ledger or day-book species.
It is volcanic, brown, and dry; large intervals of crumbling soil, and then a stiff, wiry, uncompromising-looking tussock of the very hardest grass; then perhaps a flax bush, or, as we should have said, a flax plant; then more crumbly, brown, dry soil, mixed with fine but dried grass, and then more tussocks; volcanic rock everywhere cropping out, sometimes red and tolerably soft, sometimes black and abominably hard.
So it was a very grim-visaged, uncompromising-looking group of Englishmen at whom the newcomers stared upward when the boat arrived within easy hailing-distance and lay upon her oars. An elderly man, attired in the usual mariner's costume of the period, rose in the stern-sheets of the boat and, doffing his cap, opened the conversation by remarking in English: "Good morning, gentlemen!
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