"I do. The fellow spoke to me nothing but truth and sense. I answered him just as roughly as I did the rest, who jabbered mere gibberish. I couldn't make distinctions there and then. His appearance told what he had gone through lately clearer than his words; but where is the use of explaining? Let him have work."
"Let him have it yourself. If you are so very much in earnest, strain a point."

"The fellow spoke truth and sense, while the others merely jabbered. Let him have work."
"Let him have it yourself, if you are so very much in earnest."
