I myself honestly believe that it was those wonderful articles of yours in the _Nineteenth Century_ which brought back to a reasonable frame of mind thousands who were half led away by the glamour of this new campaign.

You kindled the torch, my friend, and you must bear it to victory.

You bring me to my last resource.

If you will not serve under Rochester, come back--and Rochester will serve under you when the time comes." Mannering shook his head slowly.
"I wish I could convince you," he said, "once and for all, that my refusal springs from no such reasons as you seem to imagine.

I would sooner sit here, with a volume of Pater or Meredith, and this west wind blowing in my face, than I would hear myself acclaimed Prime Minister of England.