To extend to him fine feeling, tolerance, and such-like gentlenesses would be to deprive the world of them without benefit to any.

So well as I can remember, what I said was something like this: "Ernest, as you say, you've got to go, and to go quick, you understand.
I dare say you look on this as a land of barbarians, and think that any of your high-toned refinements are thrown away on people here.

Well, perhaps it is so.

Undoubtedly, the structure of the country is rough; the mountains may only represent the glacial epoch; but so far as I can gather from some of your exploits--for I have only learned a small part as yet--you represent a period a good deal farther back.

You seem to have given our folk here an exhibition of the playfulness of the hooligan of the Saurian stage of development; but the Blue Mountains, rough as they are, have come up out of the primeval slime, and even now the people aim at better manners.