There is no honour the Crown would not confer for such remarkable service." The other's face darkened.

"I did not speak, I did not think, of handles to his name.

I find no good in them, but only means for deceiving and deluding the world.

Such honours as might make him baronet, or duke, would add not a cubit to his stature.

If he had such a thing by right"-- his voice hardened, his eyes grew angry once again--"I would wish it sunk into the sea." "You are hard on us, sir, who did not give ourselves our titles, but took them with our birth as a matter of course.