"I could never deny," he began--"I mean I can conceive that some men would be better dead.

But who are we to know all the springs of God's unfortunate creatures?
Who are we to trust ourselves where it seems that God Himself must think twice before He treads, and to do it with delight?
Yes, with delight.

_Tigris ut aspera_." "Perhaps not a pleasant spectacle," said Glenalmond.

"And yet, do you know, I think somehow a great one." "I've had a long talk with him to-night," said Archie.
"I was supposing so," said Glenalmond.
"And he struck me--I cannot deny that he struck me as something very big," pursued the son.

"Yes, he is big.