The very thought makes me feel queer.
However, I expect I shall get on better now than I did last time.

What an ass I was, to be sure, on that voyage!" "Well, I do think your four months with the regiment have done you a world of good, Stapleton.

You certainly were a stuck-up sort of personage when you came on board in the Thames.

I think it is an awful mistake for a fellow to be educated at home, instead of being sent to school; they are sure to have to suffer for it afterward." "Well, I have suffered for it to some extent," Stapleton said.

"The lessons I got at first were sharp ones; but they certainly did me good." "There is no doubt about that," Ralph agreed; "and I think there is a good deal of credit due to you, Stapleton, for having taken things in the right way.