You have resumed since Christmas, I think ?' Egremont had no mind to speak of these things.

It cost him an effort to find an answer.
'Yes, I still have a few hearers.' And at once he was angry with himself for falling into this confession of failure.

Dalmaine was the last man before whom he would affect humility.
'I am sure,' observed the politician, 'everyone who has the good of the working classes at heart must feel indebted to you.

It's so very seldom that men of culture care to address audiences of that kind.

Yet it must be the most effectual way of reaching the people.