But the effort was signally powerful and intelligent; it seemed to Rowland that it needed only to let itself go to compass great things.

Here and there, too, success, when grasped, had something masterly.

Rowland turned to his companion, who stood with his hands in his pockets and his hair very much crumpled, looking at him askance.
The light of admiration was in Rowland's eyes, and it speedily kindled a wonderful illumination on Hudson's handsome brow.

Rowland said at last, gravely, "You have only to work!" "I think I know what that means," Roderick answered.

He turned away, threw himself on a rickety chair, and sat for some moments with his elbows on his knees and his head in his hands.