After all, why should he feel this humility towards her?
What man of prominence, of merit, at all like his own would ever seek her hand?
The semblance of chivalry which occasionally stirred within him was, in fact, quite inconsistent with his reasoned view of things; the English working class has, on the whole, as little of that quality as any other people in an elementary stage of civilisation.

He was a man, she a woman.

A lady, to be sure, but then-- After Mutimer, Alfred Waltham had probably more genuine satisfaction in the ceremony than any one else present.

Mr.Westlake he was not quite satisfied with; there was a mildness and restraint about the style of the address which to Alfred's taste smacked of feebleness; he was for Cambyses' vein.

Still it rejoiced him to hear the noble truths of democracy delivered as it were from the bema.