Yet, Youth looks on Youth as peculiarly its own, and Keith found it hard to look on Alice Yorke's marriage as anything but a sale.
"They talk about the sin of selling negroes," he said; "that is as very a sale as ever took place at a slave-auction." For a time he plunged into the gayest life that Gumbolt offered.

He even began to visit Terpsichore.

But this was not for long.

Mr.Plume's congratulations were too distasteful to him for him to stomach them; and Terpy began to show her partiality too plainly for him to take advantage of it.

Besides, after all, though Alice Yorke had failed him, it was treason to the ideal he had so long carried in his heart.