I lose my appetite for weeks afterwards.
Let us talk of something else." And the governor puffed furiously away at the hookah he had just lighted.

Then the conversation turned to the forts again.
"No, I do not find the life dull," he said, in answer to a remark of Dick's.

"I did so at first, but one soon becomes accustomed to it.

I have my wife and two daughters, and there are ten officers, so that I can have company when I choose.

All the officers are married, and that gives society.