One must be able to hold on if one meant to win.
Then he dismissed the matter for a time, and set off again with a firm and vigorous tread.
Spring had come suddenly, as it does on the high Saskatchewan plains, and he was conscious of a strange, bracing but vaguely disturbing quality in the keen air.

One felt moved to adventure and a longing for something new.

Men with brain and muscle were needed in the wide, silent land that would soon waken to busy life; but one must not give way to romantic impulses.

Stern experience had taught Festing caution, his views were utilitarian, and he distrusted sentiment.

Still, looking back on years of strenuous effort that aimed at practical objects, he felt that there was something he had missed.