I was hoping to do something gratifying to him and his family, and soon should have done it if he would permit it; but no! The mask of friendship covered a deep selfishness that scrupled not to sacrifice a real friendship to a shortsighted and overreaching ambition.

Let him go.

I wished to befriend him and his, and would have done so from the heart, but as he cannot trust me I have enough who can and do." The case of Rogers was typical, and I have, therefore, given it in some detail.

It was always a source of grief to Morse when men, whom in his large-hearted way he had admitted to his intimacy, turned against him; and he was called upon to suffer many such blows.

He has been accused of having quarrelled with all his associates.