You won't mind if I confess that a view of this kind makes me long to paint ?" "Oh, no; I intend to encourage you.

You mustn't waste your talent.
When we stay among the Rockies we will spend the days in the most beautiful places we can find, and I shall take my pleasure in watching you at work.

But didn't your fondness for sketching amuse the mess ?" "I used to be chaffed about it, but I repaid my tormentors by caricaturing them.

On the whole, they were very good-natured." "I am sure they admired the drawings; they ought to have done so, anyway.

You have talent.