But the remnant is worth the trouble for it's own sake.' 'Isn't it nice to get credit even for bad work ?' 'It's much too nice.

But---- May I tell you something?
It isn't a pretty tale, but you're so like a man that I forget when I'm talking to you.' 'Tell me.' 'Once when I was out in the Soudan I went over some ground that we had been fighting on for three days.

There were twelve hundred dead; and we hadn't time to bury them.' 'How ghastly!' 'I had been at work on a big double-sheet sketch, and I was wondering what people would think of it at home.

The sight of that field taught me a good deal.

It looked just like a bed of horrible toadstools in all colours, and--I'd never seen men in bulk go back to their beginnings before.