The employer of labour is not as a rule troubled with a lively imagination; a pity, for it would surely gratify him to feel in its fulness at times his power of life and death.

Native defect and force of habit render it a matter of course that a small population should eat or starve at his pleasure; possibly his resolution in seasons of strike is now and then attributable to awakening of insight and pleasure in prolonging his role of hunger-god.

Dagworthy appreciated his victim's despair all the more that it made present to him the wretchedness that would fall on Emily.

Think not that the man was unashamed.

With difficulty he could bring himself to meet Hood's look.