You can force yourself to a job when flesh and spirit cry out against it.

I let no man alive cry down my courage, but I say freely that it's not to be evened with yours." I was not feeling very courageous.

As we sped along the ridge in the afternoon I seemed to myself like a midge lost in a monstrous net.

The dank, dripping trees and the misty hills seemed to muffle and deaden the world.

I could not believe that they ever would end; that anywhere there was a clear sky and open country.