8/18 But it is not so. No one ever yet was the poorer in the long-run for having once in a lifetime 'let out all the length of all the reins.'" "You mean it did me good," said Rachel, "and that _he_ was a kind of benefactor in disguise. I dare say you are right, but you see I don't take a burning interest in my own character. I don't find my mental stand-point--isn't that what Mrs.Loftus calls it ?--very engrossing." "He was a benefactor, all the same," said Hester, with decision. "I did not think so at the time, and if I could have driven over him in an omnibus I would have done so with pleasure. |