The idle, academic, superior person, whatever his gifts, is a serious hindrance to honest work," said the popular idol.
"I shouldn't call him idle or superior," said Lewis quietly.

"I have seen hard workers, but I have never seen anything like Tommy.

He is a perfect mill-horse, wasting his fine talent on a dreary routine, merely because he is conscientious and nobody can do it so well." He always respected honesty, so he forbore to be irritated with this assured speaker.
But Alice interfered to prevent jarring.
"I read your book, Mr.Haystoun.What a time you must have had! You say that north of Bardur or some place like that there are two hundred miles of utterly unknown land till you come to Russian territory.

I should have thought that land important.

Why doesn't some one penetrate it?
"Well, for various causes.