His own blood stirred with the desire to accomplish, to carry further; and as the scope of the philanthropist did not attract him, he was vaguely conscious of having been born too late in England.
The new political appeal of the colonies, clashing suddenly upon old insular harmonies, brought him a sense of wider fields and chances; his own case he freely translated into his country's, and offered an open mind to politics that would help either of them.

He looked at the new countries with interest, an interest evoked by their sudden dramatic leap into the forefront of public concern.

He looked at them with what nature intended to be the eye of a practical businessman.

He looked at Lorne Murchison, too, and listened to him, with steady critical attention.

Lorne seemed in a way to sum it all up in his person, all the better opportunity a man had out there; and he handled large matters of the future with a confidence and a grip that quickened the circulation.
Hesketh's open mind gradually became filled with the imperial view as he had the capacity to take it; and we need not be surprised if Lorne Murchison, gazing in the same direction, supposed that they saw the same thing.
Hesketh confessed, declared, that Murchison had brought him round; and Lorne surveyed this achievement with a thrill of the happiest triumph.
Hesketh stood, to him, a product of that best which he was so occupied in admiring and pursuing.