I am not a slave of ambition--at bottom I care precious little for going into Parliament.

I enjoyed the excitement of it--I believe I have a knack of making speeches; but what does it all amount to?
Tell me your true thought." He drew near to her.

"Shall I throw it up and go abroad with my wife ?--my _wife_! that is her true name!" He looked a fine fellow as he spoke this; better than he had looked on the platform.

Mrs.Wade gazed at him fixedly, as if she could not take away her eyes.

She trembled, and her forehead was wrung with pain.
"Do this," she replied, eagerly, "if you wish to make Lilian unhappy for the rest of her life." "What do you mean ?" "It seems I understand her better than you do--perhaps because I am a woman.