If the explorer or the adventurer has scruples, he had better give up that special branch of effort and come himself to a more level walk in life.

Neither must there be regrets.

There is no need for such; savage life has this advantage: it begets a certain toleration not to be found in conventional existence.
RUPERT'S JOURNAL--_Continued_.
_May_ 2, 1907.
I had heard long ago that Second Sight is a terrible gift, even to its possessor.

I am now inclined not only to believe, but to understand it.
Aunt Janet has made such a practice of it of late that I go in constant dread of discovery of my secret.

She seems to parallel me all the time, whatever I may do.