"If there are woods all over it, it is not likely one would happen to meet with any of these people.

I should like, above all things, to get to the top of that hill." "It would be harder work than you think, young sir," the captain said.
"You have no idea from this distance what the height is, or what a long journey it is to ascend to the top.

I have been told that it is a hundred and twenty miles round its foot." "I don't think you would like it, Matteo, if you were to try it," Francis said laughing.

"You know you are as lazy as you can be, and hate exerting yourself.

I am sure that, before you got a quarter the distance up that mountain, you would have only one wish, and that would be to be at the bottom again." "I don't know," Matteo said.