Don't trouble myself much with expectations as a rule.

That's why I and my poor old father never could get on.

I always quoted the text 'Sufficient to the day is the evil thereof' to him, until at length he sent for the family Bible and ruled it out with red ink in a rage.

But I say, do you think that we shall be called upon to understudy St.Lawrence on that grid ?" "Certainly, I do," I replied, "and, as old Babemba warned you, you can't complain." "Oh! but I will and I can.

And so will you, won't you, Brother John ?" Brother John woke up from a reverie and stroked his long beard.
"Since you ask me, Mr.Somers," he said, reflectively, "if it were a case of martyrdom for the Faith, like that of the saint to whom you have alluded, I should not object--at any rate in theory.