Of course there are a good many of them in the country.

So that Mr Horace Williams was justified to some extent in his kindly observation upon the excusable egotism of youth.

Two or three letters, however, came in while Lorne was considering the relation of plates and rivets to the objects of his deputation.

They were all congratulatory; one was from the chairman of the Liberal Association at its headquarters in Toronto.

Lorne glanced at them and stowed them away in his pocket.
He would read them when he got home, when it would be a pleasure to hand them over to his mother.