This was regarded as his blind side; and young employees who cultivated it, and made broad their phylacteries under his notice, certainly had an added chance of getting on well in the works.

To some few whom he knew specially well, Michael would confess that if he had had the brains for it, he should have wished to be a priest.

He displayed no inclination to marry.
The other son, Terence, was some eight years younger, and seemed the product of a wholly different race.

The contrast between Michael's sandy skin and long gaunt visage and this dark boy's handsome, rounded face, with its prettily curling black hair, large, heavily fringed brown eyes, and delicately modelled features, was not more obvious than their temperamental separation.

This second lad had been away for years at school,--indeed, at a good many schools, for no one seemed to manage to keep him long.