Such men, no doubt, often live honest lives, are good Christians, and depart hence with hopes as justifiable as though they had loved as well as Romeo.

But yet, as men, they have lacked a something, the want of which has made them small and poor and dry.

It has never been felt by such a one that there would be triumph in giving away everything belonging to him for one little whispered, yielding word, in which there should be acknowledgment that he had succeeded in making himself master of a human heart.

And there are other men,--very many men,--who have felt this love, and have resisted it, feeling it to be unfit that Love should be Lord of all.

Frank Greystock had told himself, a score of times, that it would be unbecoming in him to allow a passion to obtain such mastery of him as to interfere with his ambition.