10/18 It gives the hinder ones a chance." "Catherine will be very glad for others to win," said Mrs.Arrowpoint, "she is so magnanimous. It was entirely her considerateness that made us bring Herr Klesmer instead of Canon Stopley, who had expressed a wish to come. For her own pleasure, I am sure she would rather have brought the Canon; but she is always thinking of others. I told her it was not quite _en regle_ to bring one so far out of our own set; but she said, 'Genius itself is not _en regle_; it comes into the world to make new rules.' And one must admit that." "Ay, to be sure," said Lord Brackenshaw, in a tone of careless dismissal, adding quickly, "For my part, I am not magnanimous; I should like to win. |