After sitting opposite Dalmaine for an hour at the dinner-table, he was able to regard the man again in what he deemed a true light.

But the impression made upon one by an object suddenly presented when the thought is busy with far other things will as a rule embody much essential truth.

As a force, Egremont would not have weighed in the scale against Dalmaine.
Putting himself in conscious opposition to such a man, he had but his due in a sense of nullity.
Mr.Tyrrell was kind to him in the assignment of a partner.

A pretty, gentle, receptive maiden, anxious to show interest in things of the mind--with such a one Walter was at his best, because his simplest and happiest.

He put away thought of Lambeth--which in truth was beginning to trouble his mind like a fixed idea--and talked much as he would have done a couple of years ago, with bright intelligence, with natural enjoyment of the hour.