I have seen other young fellows just as full of work and enthusiasm as you are, but I have never seen an exception to the rule, unless, of course, they took up something so as to give their minds a rest." "The Doctor has just been scolding me because I am not fond enough of work," Captain Doolan laughed.
"You are differently placed, Doolan," the Doctor said.

"You have got plenty of enthusiasm in your nature--most Irishmen have--but you have had nothing to stir it.

Life in a native regiment in India is an easy one.

Your duties are over in two or three hours out of the twenty-four, whereas the work of a civilian in a large district literally never ends, unless he puts a resolute stop to it.

What with seeing people from morning until night, and riding about and listening to complaints, every hour of the day is occupied, and then at night there are reports to write and documents of all sorts to go through.