"It almost seems to me that, if everything could be had without trouble, it would not be worth having." "How do you mean, Mr.Kennedy ?" "I may illustrate it by saying, Sire, that no true fisherman would care about angling in a pond, close to his house, and so full of fish, that he had but to drop a baited hook into the water to bring up one immediately.

The pleasure of fishing consists largely in the hard work that it demands.

It is, perhaps, miles to a stream across the hills, and a long day's work may produce but a half dozen fish; but these the angler prizes in proportion to the trouble he has had to get them.

I think that, were I born heir to a throne, I would rather that it should cost me hardship, toil, and danger to obtain it, than walk into a cathedral, a few days after my father's death, and there be crowned." "I do not agree with you, at all," James said, shortly.

"If anything could not be had without toil, hardship, and danger, as you say, I would willingly go without it." "Then, Sire, I can only hope that the toil and danger may be borne by your devoted followers, and that you may be spared them, personally." James looked sharply up at his companion, to gather whether the words were spoken sarcastically, but Desmond's face, though flushed, was calm and serious.