Everything in me goes out in sympathy with him, and I'll let it be known all through the constituency." "If you take it that way," said Wilson, "there's no more to be done." "There's nothing to be done, except to find out who put up the man to make the announcement." "He did it on his own," Wilson replied warmly.

"None of our people would resort to a dirty trick like that." "And yet you want me to take advantage of it now it's done." "That's quite a different matter." "I can't see much difference," said Paul.
So Wilson, seeing that his candidate was more unmanageable than ever, presently departed, and Paul sat down to breakfast.

But he could not eat.

He was both stricken with shame and moved to the depths by immense pity.

Far removed from him as Silas Finn was in mode of life and ideals, he found much in common with his father.