CHAPTER IX.
GALLANT BEHAVIOUR OF T.SANDYS There were now no fewer than three men engaged, each in his own way, in the siege of Grizel, nothing in common between them except insulted vanity.

One was a broken fellow who took for granted that she preferred to pass him by in the street.

His bow was also an apology to her for his existence.

He not only knew that she thought him wholly despicable, but agreed with her.

In the long ago (yesterday, for instance) he had been happy, courted, esteemed; he had even esteemed himself, and so done useful work in the world.