A mere word from you, and such a delusion goes no farther.

I regret it extremely.' Mutimer held the letter in his hand, and kept looking from it to the speaker.

Keene's subtleties were not very intelligible to him, but, even with a shrewd suspicion that he was being humbugged, he could not resist a sense of pleasure in hearing himself classed with the superior men whose actions are not to be explained by the vulgar.

Nay, he asked himself whether the defence was not in fact a just one.

After all, was it not possible that his conduct had been praiseworthy?
He recovered the argument by which he had formerly tried to silence disagreeable inner voices; a man in his position owed it to society to effect a union of classes, and private feeling must give way before the higher motive.