You must feel that you have done a great and a good action in sharing this inheritance of yours with millions of your fellow-creatures." Burton leaned a little forward in his place.
"Professor," he said, "remember that there are only two small beans, each less than the size of a sixpence, which I have handed over to you.
As to the qualities which they possess, there is no shadow of doubt about them for I myself am a proof.

Yet you take one's breath away with your schemes.

How could you, out of two beans, provide a food for millions ?" The professor smiled.
"Science will do it, my dear Mr.Burton," he replied, with some note of patronage in his tone, "science, the highways of which to you are an untrodden road.

I myself am a chemist.

I myself, before I felt the call of Assyria, have made discoveries not wholly unimportant.