The Coil of Carne

Transcriber's Notes: 1. Page scan source:the Web Archive: https://archive.org/details/cihm_75374 (University of Alberta)
And what are you eager for, Mr. Eager?
Men, women, and children--bodies and souls .
Intra, page 53.
By God's help we will make men of them, the rest we must trust to Providence .
Intra, page 66.
Catch them young!
Intra, page 67.
No man is past mending till he's dead, perhaps not then .
Intra, page 82.
If by any chance you should ever sail on a low ebb-tide along a certain western coast, you will, if you are of a receptive humour and new to the district, receive a somewhat startling impression of the dignity of the absolutely flat.
Your ideas of militant and resistant grandeur may have been associated hitherto with the iron frontlets and crashing thunders of Finisterre or Sark, of Cornwall or the Western Isle. Here you are faced with a repressive curbing of the waters, equal in every respect to theirs, but so quietly displayed as to be somewhat awesome, as mighty power in restraint must always be.