The thought brought a sudden light to his face, and Alec watched the light and had no clue by which to understand it.

He began, however, defending himself.
"Look here! You suggest I should take the noblest course, as if I had never thought of that before.

I'm not lower in the scale of creation than you, and I've had the same bringing up.

I've never done anything great, but I've tried not to do the other thing.

I felt I should be a sneak when I left school if I disappointed father for the sake of being something fine, and I feel I should be a sneak now if I turned--" "You acted like the dear fellow I always knew you were in the first instance, but why is it the same now?
It's not for his sake, surely, for, for all you know, from where he is now, the sight of you going on with that work may not give him pleasure, but pain." "No; I went into it to please him, but now he's gone that's ended." "Then it's _not_ the same now.