"It has been a glorious day and, if you had come in moping, I should have given you up as hopeless." "And I give you up as hopeless, the other way," Hallett replied.
"You always seem brimming over with fun; even when, as far as I can see, there is nothing to be funny about." "Well, it really has been a glorious victory; and I only wish we had both been with the Hausa company who first attacked.

They really won the game off their own bat, for we had nothing to do but to pick up the spoil.
"There was not much worth carrying away, but I am glad of some little memento of the fight.

I got the chief's stool.

I don't quite know what I am going to do with it, yet; but I shall try to get my servant to carry it along; and it will come in handy, to sit down upon, when we encamp in a swamp.
"What did you manage to get ?" "I picked up a small rifle, a very pretty weapon.

Do you know, I quite approve of the regulation, in South Africa, that officers should carry rifles instead of swords.