It's very interesting to read history from that standpoint, instead of taking the usual view--that luxury produces the arts and graces." "Dory is a remarkable man," said Ross with enthusiasm.

"He's amazingly modest; but there are some men so big that they can't hide, no matter how hard they try.

He's one of them." Adelaide was in a glow, so happy did this sincere and just tribute make her, so relieved did she feel.

She was talking to one of Dory's friends and admirers, not with an old sweetheart of hers about whom her heart, perhaps, might be--well, a little sore, and from whom radiated a respectful, and therefore subtle, suggestion that the past was very much the present for him.

She hastened to expand upon Dory, upon his work; and, as she talked of the university, she found she had a pride in it, and an interest, and a knowledge, too, which astonished her.