"And your father, what do you say he is ?" Paul motioned to Silas to speak.
"I, Madam," said the latter, "am a self-made man, and by the establishment of fried-fish shops all over London and the great provincial towns, have, by the grace of God, amassed a considerable fortune." "Fried fish ?" said the Princess in a queer voice.
Silas looked at her out of his melancholy and unhumorous eyes.
"Yes, Madam." "I have also learned," said Paul, "that my grandmother was a Sicilian who played a street-organ.

Hence my Italian blood." Jane, standing by the door with Barney Bill, most agonized of old men, wholly nervous, twisting with gnarled fingers the broken rim of his hard felt hat, turned aside so that no one but Bill should see a sudden gush of tears.

For she had realized how drab and unimportant she was in the presence of the great and radiant lady; also how the great and radiant lady was the God-sent mate for Paul, never so great a man as now when he was cutting out his heart for truth's sake.
"I should like to tell you what my life has been," continued Paul, "in the presence of those who know it already.

That's why I asked them to stay.

Until an hour ago I lived in dreams.