He was a type of those powers which to-day hold the world in their hands, make kingdoms tremble, and change the fate of nations.

Perhaps he was all the more interesting to her because, by all the ordinary standards of criticism, he would fail to be ranked, in the jargon of her class, as a gentleman.

He represented something in flesh and blood which had never seemed more than half real to her--power without education.

She liked to consider herself--being a writer with ambitions who took herself seriously--a student of human nature.

Here was a specimen worth impaling, an original being, a creature of a new type such as never had come within the region of her experience.