And now I'm going to shove some spoonfuls of it down my throat, so light your pipe, and please be quiet." "One moment more of your precious time," interrupted Arthur.

"What is the exact career that you propose to adorn?
Something foreign, I think--Indian Civil Service ?" "No, as I have told you a dozen times, Indian Army." "The army has points--possibly in the future it might give a man an opportunity of departing from the world in a fashion that is generally, if in error, considered to be decent.

India, too, has still more points, for there anyone with intelligence might study the beginnings of civilisation, which, perhaps, are also its end.

My friend, I, too, will enter the Indian Army, that is if I can pass the examination.
Provide me at once with the necessary books and, Mrs.Parsons, be good-hearted enough to bring some of your excellent coffee, brewed double strong.

Do not imagine, young man, who ought, by the way, to have been born fifty years earlier and married my aunt, that you are the only one who can face and conquer facts, even those advanced by that most accursed of empty-headed bores, the man or the maniac called Euclid." So the pair of them studied together, and by dint of private tuition in the evening, for at Scoones' where his talent for caricature was too much for him, Arthur would do little or nothing, Godfrey dragged his friend through the examination, the last but one in the list.