But the labour, the incessant supervision, the jotting down of notes, the ceaseless interviews, the arguments, the correspondence, the work that is never finished when night comes, tell even upon that physical vigour and mental elasticity.

Hodge sleeps sound and sees the days go by with calm complacency.

The man who holds that solid earth, as it were, in the japanned boxes finds a nervous feeling growing upon him despite his strength of will.

Presently nature will have her way; and, weary and hungry for fresh air, he rushes off for awhile to distant trout-stream, moor, or stubble..