_I_ don't blame you." "Immortal powers!" he exclaimed, sitting bolt upright and appealing to the skies, "here is a woman who believes that the only concern all this causes me is whether she thinks any the worse of me personally on account of it!" "No, no, Sidney.

It is not I alone.

Nobody thinks the worse of you for it." "Quite so," he returned, in a polite frenzy.

"Nobody sees any harm in it.

That is precisely the mischief of it." "Besides," she urged, "your mother belonged to one of the oldest families in England." "And what more can man desire than wealth with descent from a county family! Could a man be happier than I ought to be, sprung as I am from monopolists of all the sources and instruments of production--of land on the one side, and of machinery on the other?
This very ground on which we are resting was the property of my mother's father.