We Irish are born dreamers; sometimes we never wake up at all, and then we're counted failures.

But, I tell you what, when all's said and done, we see what other men don't see.

For instance, what do you think my two friends saw in you last night ?" The boy shook his head, and there was a tremor of nervousness about his mouth.
"They saw something dangerous--something to be avoided.

Yet Mac is a millionaire several times over, and Billy is distinctly a diplomatist with a future." The boy forced a smile; he was beginning to shrink from the pleasant scrutiny, to wish that the vaporous fog of last night might dim the searching light of the morning.
"What did they see ?" he asked.
The Irishman looked at him humorously.

"I hardly like to tell it to you," he said, "but they marked you for an anarchist.