I must therefore turn to some fresh pursuit for my future career, and surely it would be best that I should do so at once.

What that fresh pursuit is to be I leave to your judgment.

Personally, I think that if I embarked my capital in some commercial undertaking I might by sticking to my work do well.

I feel too much cast down at my own failure to see you to-night, but to-morrow I hope to hear what you think from your own lips." "TOM." "Perhaps this failure will do no harm after all," the doctor muttered thoughtfully, as he folded up the letter and gazed out at the cold glare of the northern sunset..