I supposed you older--until my daughter showed me your picture in the _News_ two weeks ago!" "I supposed _you_ older--until this minute." "I _am_!" Looking squarely into each other's faces they laughed and shook hands.
"When did you come, Mr.Hamil ?" "Last night from Nassau." "Where are you stopping ?" Hamil told him.
"Your rooms are ready here.

It's very good of you to come to see me at once--" "It's very good of you to want me--" "Want you, man alive! Of course I want you! I'm all on edge over this landscape scheme; I've done nothing since we arrived from the North but ride over and over the place--and I've not half covered it yet.

That's the way we'll begin work, isn't it?
Knock about together and get a general idea of the country; isn't that the best way ?" "Yes, certainly--" "I thought so.

The way to learn a country is to ride over it, fish over it, shoot over it, sail around it, camp in it--that's my notion of thoroughly understanding a region.

If you're going to improve it you've got to care something about it--begin to like it--find pleasure in it, understand it.