I should consider myself to be worse than wicked if I allowed any consideration of such a nature to stand in the way of your best interests.

Believe me, Alaric, that though I shall, as others, be anxious for success myself, I should, in failing, be much consoled by knowing that you had succeeded.' And as he finished speaking he grasped his friend's hand warmly in token of the truth of his assertion.
Alaric brushed a tear from his eye, and ended by promising to be guided by his friend's advice.

Harry Norman, as he walked into the office, felt a glow of triumph as he reflected that he had done his duty by his friend with true disinterested honesty.

And Alaric, he also felt a glow of triumph as he reflected that, come what might, there would be now no necessity for him to break with Norman or with the Woodwards.

Norman must now always remember that it was at his own instigation that he, Alaric, had consented to be a candidate.
As regarded the real fact of the candidature, the prize was too great to allow of his throwing away such a chance.