We've had the hardest kind of work, we've been badly backed, and now we're badly beaten.

And we've fetched through without a word of disagreement.

I don't say this to praise myself: it's my trade; it's what I'm paid for, and trained for, and brought up to.

But it was another thing for you; it was all new to you; and it did me good to see you stand right up to it and swing right into it, day in, day out.

And then see how you've taken this disappointment, when everybody knows you must have been tautened up to shying-point! I wish you'd let me tell you, Mr.Dodd, that you've stood out mighty manly and handsomely in all this business, and made every one like you and admire you.