But have I any chance?
Can a perfectly unknown man hope to get in ?' They debated this aspect of the matter.

Seeing Peak had laid down his pipe, the journalist offered him tobacco.
'Thanks; I can't smoke just yet.

It's my misfortune that I can't talk earnestly without throwing my body into disorder.' 'How stolid I am in comparison!' said Earwaker.
'That book of M'Naughten's,' resumed the other, going back to his subject.

'I suppose the clergy accept it ?' 'Largely, I believe.' Peak mused.
'Now, if I were a clergyman'-- But his eye met Earwaker's, and they broke into laughter.
'Why not ?' pursued Godwin.

'Did I ever tell you that my people originally wished to make a parson of me?
Of course I resisted tooth and nail, but it seems to me now that I was rather foolish in doing so.
I wish I _had_ been a parson.