If I succeed, I shall have done the work of a whole churchful of missionaries.

If I fail, I shan't recommend you to be ordained.

And never forget that you will be indebted for all this to some one you've never known, and who, I am at present happy to say, don't know you.

Whether or not you'll ever become acquainted is known to God alone, and I'm very glad that the matter lies entirely in His hands.
Now, sir, what have you to say ?" Bressant, who had been looking steadily and curiously at the professor during the whole of this long speech, now passed his hand from his forehead down over his face and beard--a common trick of his--smiled meditatively, and said: "I'm glad you agree to take me.

I don't care for your recommendation if I have your instruction.