"It seems strange to me, Frank Pennington, that your life on the plains, where conditions, for the present at least, are hard, has permitted you to have so much frivolity in your nature." "It's not frivolity, George.

It's a gay and bright spirit, in the rays of which you may bask without price.

It will do you good." "Do you know what's to be our next duty ?" "No, I don't, and I'm not going to bother about it.

I'll leave that directly to Colonel Winchester, and indirectly to General Sheridan.
When you rest, put your mind at rest.

Concentration on whatever you are doing is the secret of continued success." They were lying on blankets near the foot of the mountain, and the time was late October.