"I made them _dress_ me like an Englishman," he said, surveying himself.

To be English, that was his aim.
I found that his father had inculcated this idea in him thoroughly, and had impressed upon him the dignity of the position.

It was, I was told afterward, the one argument that never failed to make him attentive in his lessons.
It was not till he was driving away from Truro into the country that he found leisure to think of his father and brother, and wonder what they would be doing.

I had the greatest difficulty in explaining that the hours of the day were different, and that it was early morning there.
"No," he said, "it is impossible; I feel like the evening--Martin can not be feeling like the morning." He was rather disappointed as we got further and further into the lovely country.

"I have lived among trees all my life," he said.