There is still need to think and plan, but on a different scale, and along different lines.

They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.

With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe paddles will move her along at a speed reasonable enough in moderate currents.

I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers.

Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.

The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer hall. I was medically rejected.