"As it is, I work till I'm ready to drop." "I mind when I had it," said Peter, "I came to a camp of French half-breeds on Musquasepi, and I saw Eva Lajeunesse for the first time.
It was like a blow between the eyes.

You do not know what she looked like then.

I didn't think about it this way or that; I just up and married her.

I was glad to get her! "Man to man I'll not deny I ain't been sorry sometimes," he went on; "who ain't, sometimes?
But, on the whole, after all these years, how could I have done any better?
She's good enough for me.

A man worries about his children sometimes; but I guess if they go straight there's a place for them, though they are dusky.