"Go with me, Mark? What for? To live hard, work hard, and run the risk every day of having to die hard. Get out You're as bad as your mother." "Not very bad, is it, James, to wish to share my husband's life and cares?" Captain Strong put down his pipe, got up from his easy-chair, crossed to the other side of the fire, and laid his hand upon Mrs Strong's shoulder, while she turned her pleasant sweet womanly face upward and smiled in that of the fine, manly, handsome merchant captain, tanned and reddened by many a fight with the sea.