[Whether that's in response to leading the way or the physical labor being too hard is difficult to say, although... He's learned not to comment immediately on such things, but that was practically inviting it...]
You should work on that while you're here, you know. This seems like the sort of place that values hard work... Building up strength will surely be useful in the times to come, won't it?
[That was the gentlest way he could have put that.]
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[Whether that's in response to leading the way or the physical labor being too hard is difficult to say, although... He's learned not to comment immediately on such things, but that was practically inviting it...]
You should work on that while you're here, you know. This seems like the sort of place that values hard work... Building up strength will surely be useful in the times to come, won't it?
[That was the gentlest way he could have put that.]