Well.

When the lesson comes, if it does come, I suppose it will come in some learnable shape; and till then, I must shift for myself-- and if self-dependence he a punishable sin, I shall, at all events, have plenty of company whithersoever I go.

There is Lord Scoutbush and Trebooze!" Why did not Campbell speak his mind more clearly to Thurnall?
Because he knew that with such men words are of little avail.

The disease was entrenched too strongly in the very centre of the man's being.

It seemed at moments as if all his strange adventures and hairbreadth escapes had been sent to do him harm, and not good; to pamper and harden his self-confidence, not to crush it.