But he was a constant man, and his inner resolve was simply to the effect that he would try it again.
I wonder whether Jeffrey Palliser did think much of the difference between his present position and that which would have been his had Lady Glencora been the happy possessor of a cradle up-stairs with a boy in it.

I suppose he must have done so.

It is hardly possible that any man should not be alive to the importance of such a chance.

His own present position was one of the most unfortunate which can fall to the lot of a man.

His father, the Duke's youngest brother, had left him about six hundred a year, and had left him also a taste for living with people of six thousand.