I no more supposed you would go to Eden on such
representations as you received; or, indeed, that you would do anything
but be dispossessed, by the readiest means, of your idea that fortunes
were so easily made here; than I thought of going to Eden myself.'
'The fact is, I closed with the thing in a mad and sanguine manner,'
said Martin, 'and the less said about it the better for me. Mark, here,
hadn't a voice in the matter.'
'Well! but he hadn't a voice in any other matter, had he?' returned Mr
Bevan; laughing with an air that showed his understanding of Mark and
Martin too.
'Not a very powerful one, I am afraid,' said Martin with a blush. 'But
live and learn, Mr Bevan! Nearly die and learn; we learn the quicker.'
'Now,' said their friend, 'about your plans. You mean to return home at
once?'
'Oh, I think so,' returned Martin hastily, for he turned pale at the
thought of any other suggestion. 'That is your opinion too, I hope?'
'Unquestionably. For I don't know why you ever came here; though it's
not such an unusual case, I am sorry to say, that we need go any farther
into that.
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