I must seem churlish and ungrateful, but if I listened to you for hours the result would be the same.

I have finished with actual political life." Borrowdean shrugged his shoulders despairingly.

Such a man was hard to deal with.
"Mannering," he protested, "you must not, you really must not, send me away like this.

You speak of your written work.

Don't think that I underestimate it because I have not alluded to it before.