"Merely wish to be with me, and you _are_ with me." "Good gracious!" cried Brenton, "is locomotion so easy as that ?" "Locomotion is very easy.

I do not think anything could be easier than it is, and I do not think there could be any improvement in that matter." "Are there matters here, then, that you think could be improved ?" "As to that I shall not say.

Perhaps you will be able to give your own opinion before you have lived here much longer." "Taking it all in all," said Brenton, "do you think the spirit-land is to be preferred to the one we have left ?" "I like it better," said Ferris, "although I presume there are some who do not.

There are many advantages; and then, again, there are many--well, I would not say disadvantages, but still some people consider them such.

We are free from the pangs of hunger or cold, and have therefore no need of money, and there is no necessity for the rush and the worry of the world below." "And how about heaven and hell ?" said Brenton.