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"GoodNever heard it better put"

"I have felt the sas' and 'corners' and 'trusts' and the arity of it all, I have often wished to have a try e brains and clean blood could not beat these fellows on their own ground"

"Then why did you not?" asked Marker "You were rich enough to "

"I expect I was too slack I wanted to try the thing, but there was so th of trying Besides, I have a bad habit of seeing both sides of a question The ordinary argu to work out an attitude for oneself"

Marker looked sharply at Lewis, and George for a moment saw and contrasted the two faces Lewis's keen, kindly, hu weakly, a face over-bred, brave and finical; the other's sharp, eager, with the hungry wolf-like air of araven in steel, and the whole transfused, as it were, by the fire of the eyes into the living presentour

It was the eternal contrast of qualities, and for a oodly pieces of round

"I think, you know, that we are not quite so bad as you make out," said Lewis quietly "To an outsider we must appear on the brink of incapacity, but then it is not the first time we have produced that impression You will still findof that restless, hard-bitten northern energy, and that fierce hunger for righteousness, which is hard to fight with Scores of people, who can see no truth in the world and are sick with doubt and introspection and all the latter-day devils, have yet so of pride and honour in their souls which willto fall our end will not be quite inglorious"

Marker laughed and rose "I am afraid I must leave you now I have to see htfulI propose that we drink to its speedy repetition"

They drank, clinking glasses in continental fashion, and the host shook hands and departed