It was a rousing great success, certainly, that rose there before me, but somehow it was not an inscrutable mystery, and it seemed to me, not perhaps that I should some day do as well, but that at least I might!" "As you say, you can but try," said Rowland.

"Success is only passionate effort." "Well, the passion is blazing; we have been piling on fuel handsomely.
It came over me just now that it is exactly three months to a day since I left Northampton.

I can't believe it!" "It certainly seems more." "It seems like ten years.

What an exquisite ass I was!" "Do you feel so wise now ?" "Verily! Don't I look so?
Surely I have n't the same face.

Have n't I a different eye, a different expression, a different voice ?" "I can hardly say, because I have seen the transition.