'I've had the scene before me!' the earl interposed. 'Juniper dells and that tree of the flashing leaf, and that dear old boy, your father, young as you and me, and saying love of Nature gives us eternal youth. On with you.'
'I doubted whether I should be of use to you. I told you the amount of alloy in my motives. A year with you, I have subsistence for ten years assured to me.'
'Don't be a prosy dog, Gower Woodseer.'
'Will you come over to the Wythans before you go?'
'I will not.'
'You would lengthen your stride across a wounded beast?'
'I see no wound to the beast.'
'You can permit yourself to kick under cover of a metaphor.'
'Tell me what you drive at, Gower.'
'The request is, for you to spare pain by taking one step—an extra strain on the muscles of the leg. It 's only the leg wants moving.'