"She seemed to be better while the excitement about Del's wedding was on; but as soon as Del and Dory went, she dropped back again.

I think the only thing that keeps her from--from joining father is the feeling that, if she were to go, the family income would stop.

I feel sure we'd not have her, if father had left us well provided for, as they call it." "That is true," said Ross, the decent side of his nature now full to the fore.

"I can't tell you what a sense of loss I had when your father died.
Artie, he was a splendid gentleman.

And there is a quality in your mother that makes me feel very humble indeed before her." Arthur passed, though he noted, the unconscious superciliousness in this tribute; he felt that it was a genuine tribute, that, for all its discoloration in its passage through the tainted outer part of Ross's nature, it had come from the unspoiled, untainted, deepest part.
Fortunately for us all, the gold in human nature remains gold, whatever its alloys from base contacts; and it is worth the mining, though there be but a grain of it to the ton of dross.