Some one had confidently asserted that the so-called Socialistic enterprise at Wanley was a mere pretence, that Mutimer was making money just like any other capitalist, and the leaguers of Hoxton firmly believed this.

They encouraged one another to positive hatred of the working man who had suddenly become wealthy; his name stank in their nostrils.

This, in a great measure, explained Comrade Roodhouse's success; personal feeling is almost always the spring of public action among the uneducated.

In the excitement of the schism a few of the more energetic spirits had determined to drag Richard's domestic concerns into publicity.

They suddenly became aware that private morality was at the root of the general good; they urged each other to righteous indignation in a matter for which they did not really care two straws.