But you want pulling together.
That confounded place you've been to has utterly upset you." "On the contrary," said I, "it has steadied and amplified my conception of sublunary affairs.

It has shown me that motley is much more profitable wear than the edged toga of the senator--" "Oh, for God's sake, dry up," cried young England, "and tell me what answers I'm to give these people!" He seemed so earnest about it that I humoured him; and my correspondents seemed so earnest that I humoured them.

But it was a grim jest.

Most of the matters with which I had to deal appeared so trivial.

Only here and there did I find a chance for eumoiriety.