"It is the air of commercial aristocracy these people wear. Now, by birth and breeding, Diamond, you are a true aristocrat, but with you blood is everything, and it rather galls you to witness the boorish air of superiority assumed by some of these millionaire pork packers with neither education nor refinement. I don't wonder. When you came to Yale you had some silly notions about aristocracy, but you have gotten over them to a certain extent, so that now you recognize a gentleman as a gentleman, even though his father was a day laborer; but you realize that no man is a gentleman simply because he is worth several million dollars and has a daughter he is trying to marry off to a foreigner with a title and a blasted reputation. We are getting nearer together in our ideas every day, Diamond, whether you realize it or not. These money-made aristocrats with their boorish manners and their inability to speak or spell the English language correctly are quite as repugnant to me as they are to you. There are plenty of such society people here, and they are making you tired, old man. I don't wonder. I am becoming a trifle fatigued myself." "Yaw," grunted Hans, who had been listening with an owlish look of wisdom on his full-moon face, "vot makes me dired vos dose beoble vot don'd knew how to speak der English language mitoudt a misdake makin' their spelling in." "I can't say that I relish Bar Harbor so very much," said Hodge, speaking for the first time. "I think I have seen enough of it." "Let's move," grunted Browning. "Oh, you will trouble yourself a lot about moving!" laughed Frank. "I'll move when the yacht does." "And help get up the anchor?" "Oh, say, I'll pay Hans to do my share of pulling on the anchor line! My heart is weak, and I am liable to strain it by overexertion." "You are not at all liable to, for you will not overexert yourself." "If we leave Bar Harbor, where shall we go, fellows?" asked Diamond. "Oh, there are plenty of places," assured Frank. "Mention some of them." "As you know, Penobscot Bay is full of islands, and on some of those islands are villages. Now, it is my belief that some of those villages would be interesting places to visit." "A good suggestion." "We might run down to Green's Landing or Isle au Haut." "Say!" exclaimed Diamond. "Say it." "I have an idea." "Vos dot as pad as der rheumadisms?" asked Hans, innocently. "Vere did id hurt me most?" "Let's invite the girls," said Jack. "Inza and Paula?" "Yes." "Huah!" grunted Browning, from his berth. "Anybody might have known it! Think of John Diamond, of Virginia, getting soft on a Boston girl! Ha! ha! ha!" The big fellow's words and laughter irritated Diamond, and he snapped: "I don't see what there is so very funny about that!" Then Browning laughed all the more, saying: "You see, he doesn't deny it, fellows. I suspected it when they met in Rockland. It was a case of love at first sight."