He was enjoying his breakfast, and, under this genial influence, presently felt moved to intimate speech.
"You live very comfortably here, don't you?
You have no objection on principle to this kind of thing ?"--his waving hand indicated the well-spread table.
"I?
Certainly not.

Why should I object to civilisation ?" "I'm not quite sure that I have got at your point of view yet," answered Dyce, good-humouredly.

"You know mine.

The tools to him who can use them.

A breakfast such as this puts us at an advantage over the poorer world for the rest of the day.