I hope you may be successful.' 'You seem to doubt it.' 'Of course it is doubtful.

If not, the thing would be common and hardly worth the doing.

Will Mr.Shand be very persistent as a working miner ?' 'I hope so.' 'He seems to me to have great gifts of idleness, which on board ship are a blessing.

How I do envy men when I see them smoking! It seems to me that nothing is wanting to them.

Women have their needlework; but though they hate it less than idleness, they do hate it.