He could not rival, he said, the intense energy of an Englishman, who would work all day with his gun harder than ploughmen with their ploughs.

Englishmen sported, he said, as though more than their bread--as though their honor, their wives, their souls, depended on it.

It was very fine! He often wished that he was an Englishman.

Then he shrugged his shoulders.
Harry was very anxious to commence a conversation about Lady Ongar, but he did not know how at first to introduce her name.

Count Pateroff had come to him at Lady Ongar's request, and therefore, as he thought, the count should have been the first to mention her.