62/63 We don't expect people to cut their lives on a fifteenth-century pattern." Then Harry lifted his hat, and walked away, with a shadow still of his old military, up-head manner. And Julius looked after him with contempt, and thought, "What a poor fellow he is! Not a word for himself, or a plea for that wretched little heir in his cradle. There are some miserable kinds of men in this world. I thank God I am not one of them!" And the wretched Esau, with the ten thousand pounds in his pocket? |