Harold Edward Bindloss

“ Weston was quite ready to follow the lead she had given him.
"What are we to do when we come out here?" he asked, with an air of whimsical reflection. "Half of us have no professions, and we haven't a trade. They bring us up to take life easily, and then, when some accident pitches us out into the Colonies, it's rather a shock to discover that nobody seems to have any use for us. ”

“ Doesn't success even at such things as track-laying or chopping trees depend on moral as well as physical strength?"
"I think with most of us courage is largely a matter of experience," said Weston. "We learn to know what can't hurt us and to avoid the things that can. As to the other kind, the man who hazards his life and limbs in half-propped wild-cat adits, or running logs down the rapids, is hardly likely to be less cool in a tight place than the one who has never been accustomed to anything of the kind." ”

“ Gregory Kinnaird was not a man of marked ability, but he was, at least, one who could be relied on to attempt the carrying out of a duty he had undertaken, at any cost to himself, and this is, after all, a good deal to say in the favor of any man. ”

“ As a matter of fact, I don't blame your sawmill bosses, your railroad men and your ranchers, considering that it takes several years to learn how to chop a tree, and that to keep pace with an average construction gang is a liberal education. ”

“ It's comparatively easy to face weariness and wet and frost when one is used to it, but to fence with the money handler is quite a different matter. To cry our wares in the market is a thing to which we're wholly new. ”

“ She fancied that there were men in Canada who would not have been deterred by her money had they wished to marry her, and, for that matter, one or two in England had delicately permitted the fact to become apparent. ”

“ It would perhaps be possible to offer support in some shape later on, if it became apparent that he was badly beaten.
"I suppose it is not a very easy matter to dispose of an undeveloped mine?" she inquired.
Weston smiled rather dryly.
"It can be done without much trouble if you're content to give the thing away, but it's rather different if you wish to sell it. ”