Harry perfectly sympathized in the feeling; and even Alaric, though depressed himself by no melancholy forebodings, was at any rate conscious that he should refrain from any apparent anticipation of a triumph.

They all went to church in the evening; but even this amendment in Alaric's conduct hardly reconciled him to Mrs.
Woodward.
'I suppose we shall all be very clever before long,' said she, after tea; 'but really I don't know that we shall be any the better for it.

Now in this office of yours, by the end of next week, there will be three or four men with broken hearts, and there will be one triumphant jackanapes, so conceited and proud, that he'll never bring himself to do another good ordinary day's work as long as he lives.

Nothing will persuade me but that it is not only very bad, but very unjust also.' 'The jackanapes must learn to put up with ordinary work,' said Alaric, 'or he'll soon find himself reduced to his former insignificance.' 'And the men with the broken hearts; they, I suppose, must put up with their wretchedness too,' said Mrs.Woodward; 'and their wives, also, and children, who have been looking forward for years to this vacancy as the period of their lives at which they are to begin to be comfortable.

I hate such heartlessness.