It would be giving to the public, not to him.

His great ideas would get their chance.' Manisty, in his way as excitable as she, had evidently found it difficult to restrain himself when M.Octave Vacherot's views as to his own value were thus explained to him.

Nevertheless he seemed to have shown on the whole a creditable patience, to have argued with his sister, to have even offered her money of his own, for the temporary supply of M.Vacherot's necessities.

But all to no avail; and in the end it had come of course to his flatly refusing any help of his to such a scheme, and without it the scheme fell.

For their father had been perfectly well aware of his daughter's eccentricities, and had placed her portion, by his will, in the hands of two trustees, of whom her brother was one, without whose consent she could not touch the capital.
'It always seemed to her a monstrous arrangement,' said Manisty, 'and I can see now it galls her to the quick to have to apply to me, in this way.