But Mr.Saul would not admit himself that it was a fault.

I fancy that he considered himself to have, as a gentleman, a right to address himself to any lady with whom he was thrown into close contact.

I fancy that he ignored all want of worldly preparation--never for a moment attempting to place himself on a footing with men who were richer than himself; and, as the world goes, brighter, but still feeling himself to be in no way lower than they.

If any woman so lived as to show that she thought his line better than their line, it was open to him to ask such a woman to join her lot to his.

If he failed, the misfortune was his; and the misfortune, as he well knew, was one which it was hard to bear.