"I hate it! I'd sooner be a coal-heaver." "Bosh!" said I."I know that you're an essentially idle beggar; but you're as proud as Punch of your fame and success and all that it means to you." "What does it mean after all ?" "If you talk in that pessimistic way," I said, "you'll make me cry.
Don't.

It means every blessed thing in the world to you.

At any rate it has meant Doria." "I suppose that's true," he grunted.

"And I suppose I am essentially idle.

But I wish the damned thing would get written of its own accord.
It's having to sit down at that infernal desk that gets on my nerves.