He saw the gravest, sincerest appreciation of his recent success, which he took as humbly as a dog will take a bone; he read a fatherly thought at which his pulses bounded in an arrogance of triumph, and his heart rose to ask its trust.

And Octavius Milburn had held the gate open because it was more convenient to hold it open than to leave it open.

He had not a political view in the world that was calculated to affect his attitude toward a practical matter; and his opinion of Lorne was quite uncomplicated: he thought him a very likely young fellow.

Milburn himself, in the Elgin way, preferred to see no great significance of this sort anywhere.

Young people were young people; it was natural enough that they should like each other's society.