There was a later time when he would have been grateful if Hudson's susceptibility to the relaxing influence of lovely women might have been limited to such inexpensive tribute as he rendered the excellent Cecilia.
"I only desire to remind you," she pursued, "that you are likely to have your hands full." "I 've thought of that, and I rather like the idea; liking, as I do, the man.

I told you the other day, you know, that I longed to have something on my hands.

When it first occurred to me that I might start our young friend on the path of glory, I felt as if I had an unimpeachable inspiration.

Then I remembered there were dangers and difficulties, and asked myself whether I had a right to step in between him and his obscurity.

My sense of his really having the divine flame answered the question.