Our politicians might have picked up an idea or two there, I should think! Then he was so cool about it, so skilful! He fairly rubbed his hands with glee, enjoying the combat.
And he was so sure that the Doctor was savagely in earnest: why, any one with half an ear could hear that! He did not see how, in the very heat of the fray, his eyes would wander off listlessly.

But Mr.Howth did not wander; there was nothing careless or two-sided in the making of this man,--no sham about him, or borrowing.

They came down gradually, or out,--for, as I told you, they dug into the very heart of the matter at first,--they came out gradually to modern times.

Things began to assume a more familiar aspect.

Spinoza, Fichte, Saint Simon,--one heard about them now.