Could he blazon them out now, to gratify this woman's idle curiosity?
"Madam," he said, gravely, "I was introduced to you simply as John Halifax.

It seems to me that, so long as I do no discredit to it, the name suffices to the world." "Ah--I see! I see!" But he, with his downcast eyes, did not detect the meaning smile that just flashed in hers was changed into a tone of soft sympathy.

"You are right; rank is nothing--a cold, glittering marble, with no soul under.

Give me the rich flesh-and-blood life of the people.

Liberte--fraternite--egalite.