No; in my experience of English people I've always found them lavish with their help, only you must let them know what to help.

There's the point." "And you've begun, dear Mr.Fullerton, have you not ?" "Yes; but the end is far off.

We were so late--so late in beginning, and I must pass away, and my place will know me no more; and many and many another will pass away.

Oh, yes! we shall travel from gulf to gulf; but I think, sometimes, that my soul will be here on the wild nights.

I must be near my men--my poor men!--and I'll meet them when their voyage is over." The enthusiast spoke solemnly, and his queer diction somehow was not unbecoming or grotesque.