He's in his cups--that's what's the matter--and he can't be persuaded to go to bed.

I know his feelings perfectly; and I want to survey his gloriously inebriated face from another point of view.

Don't laugh, Phil; I'm in earnest! And I really have quite a curiosity to try my skill in amateur mountaineering.
Jedke's the very place for a first effort.

It offers difficulties, and"-- this with a slight yawn--"I like to surmount difficulties; it's rather amusing." His mind was so evidently set upon the excursion, that Sir Philip made no attempt to dissuade him from it, but excused himself from accompanying the party on the plea that he wanted to finish a sketch he had recently begun.

So that when the _Eulalie_ got up her steam, weighed anchor, and swept gracefully away towards the coast of the adjacent islands, her owner was left, at his desire, to the seclusion of a quiet nook on the shore of the Altenfjord, where he succeeded in making a bold and vivid picture of the scene before him.