"
"Ah!" exclaimed "Lily."
"But I said men of brawn and brains, you remember."
"And bounce, to perfect the alliteration," murmured "Lily."
"Yes, bounce, too," said Martin; "at least, he must never take
back-water; he must be ready to attempt anything, even the impossible."
"That's the splendid thing about it!" cried Miss Brodie. "You're
entirely on your own and you never say die!"
"Oh, my dear Miss Brodie," moaned "Lily" in piteous accents, "you are so
fearfully energetic! And then, it's all very splendid, but just think
of a--of a gentleman having to potter around among butter and cheese,
or mess about in muddy cellars! Ugh! Positively GHAWSTLY! I would simply
die."
"Oh, no, you wouldn't, 'Lily,'" said Martin kindly. "We have afternoon
teas and Browning Clubs, too, you must remember, and some 'cultchaw' and
that sort of thing."
There was a joyous shout from Dunn.
"But, Mr. Martin," persisted Mr. Rae, whose mind was set in arriving at
a solution of the problem in hand, "I have understood that agriculture
was the chief pursuit in Canada."
"Farming! Yes, it is, but of course that means capital. Good land in
Ontario means seventy-five to a hundred dollars per acre, and a man
can't do with less than a hundred acres; besides, farming is getting to
be a science now-a-days, Sir.
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