Av they'd keep peaceably below, now, but invading the master's bedroom--that's for ye, ye thief!" and he stamped again.
"The creatures here are a great plague," said I, slapping a mosquito upon my forehead.
"And that as true a word as your honour ever spoke.

They're murderous no less! Many's the time I'm wishing myself back in old Ireland, where there's no venomous beasts at all, at all.

Arrah! Would ye, ye skulking--" I left him stamping and streaming with perspiration, but labouring loyally on in a temperature where labour was little short of heroism.
I went back to my chair, and began to think over my prospects.

It is a disadvantage of idleness that one wearies oneself with thinking, though one cannot act.

I wondered how the prosperous sugar-planter was receiving Dennis, and whether he would do more for him than one's rich relations are apt to do.