31/41 It is insolent--brutal--but not to me! No, it is all honey to me! But to the truth--to our ideas .-- No!--I cannot suffer it. I take it back!--I bear the consequences.' And with trembling fingers, he took a draft letter from his pocket, and handed it, with the newspaper, to Manisty. But have you counted the cost? Intellectually I am all with you--strategically, all with them. They can't give way! The smallest breach lets in the flood. |