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I mean a job where you 'd lose a lot and be scared into thanking Heaven for carfare . _ You 're _ a nice object for the breakfast table ! '' `` Bridge . I will be amiable enough by noon time . '' `` Yes , you 're endurable by noon time , as a rule . When you 're forty you may be tolerated after five o'clock ; when you 're fifty your wife and children might even venture to emerge from the cellar after dinner -- '' `` Wife ! '' `` I said wife , '' replied Kerns , as he calmly watched his man .