The sum is not so large as to create any wide comment." "Ah, my boy, your father had more enthusiasm than that." The admiral looked reproachful.
"My dear admiral," and Fitzgerald laughed in that light-hearted way of his, "I would go into the heart of China on a treasure hunt, for the mere fun of it.

Enthusiasm?
Nothing would gratify me more than to strike a shovel into the spot where this treasure, this pot of gold, is supposed to lie.

It will be great sport; nothing like it.

I was merely supposing.

I have never heard of, or come into contact with, a man who has found a hidden treasure.