Just when he's finishing up work I'm beginning." "I wonder you can keep awake all the night," I said.
"Not more wonderful than you keeping awake all day, my boy.

In fact, there's not much chance of a poor literary hack sleeping over his work.
Now I wonder, when you read your newspaper in the morning, if you ever think of what has to be done to produce it.

If you only did, I dare say you would find it more interesting than it often seems." And then my companion launched out into a lively description of the work of a newspaper office, and of the various stages in the production of a paper, from the pen and ink in the sub-editor's room to the printed, folded, and delivered newspaper which lies on one's breakfast-table every morning.

I wish I could repeat it all for the benefit of the reader, for few subjects are more interesting; but it would take more time than we have to spare to do so.
Of course Mr Smith the elder--for so I had to call him to distinguish him from my friend his namesake--rattled on in this strain, more for the sake of keeping me interested and amused than any other reason.

Still, his talk was something better than idle chatter, and I began to feel that here at last, among all my miscellaneous acquaintance, was a man worth knowing.
He gave me no chance of talking myself, but rattled on from one topic to another in a way which left me quite free to listen or not as I liked, and finally rose, much to my regret, to go.
"Now I must be off, or I shall have Billy up to hunt me off.