He was not a favourite among us, for he was often gloomy and discontented, though he had his good points.

He was straightforward and manly, and he put down two or three fellows here, who had been given to bully the young ones, in a way that astonished them.
"He would never have made a good servant of the Company, for he so hated his work that, when he had been out here about a year, he tried to blow out his brains.

He snapped the pistol twice at his head, but it didn't go off, though it was loaded all right.

Strange, wasn't it?
So he came to the conclusion that he wasn't meant to kill himself, and went on living till something should turn up." "Yes," Charlie said; "Doctor Rae spoke to us about him during the voyage.

He knew him at the siege of Fort Saint David, and Pondicherry." "Yes," Johnson said.