CHAPTER XI.
Said Brown one evening, "There is but one vice, and that is selfishness." Jephson was standing before the fire lighting his pipe.

He puffed the tobacco into a glow, threw the match into the embers, and then said: "And the seed of all virtue also." "Sit down and get on with your work," said MacShaughnassy from the sofa where he lay at full length with his heels on a chair; "we're discussing the novel.

Paradoxes not admitted during business hours." Jephson, however, was in an argumentative mood.
"Selfishness," he continued, "is merely another name for Will.

Every deed, good or bad, that we do is prompted by selfishness.

We are charitable to secure ourselves a good place in the next world, to make ourselves respected in this, to ease our own distress at the knowledge of suffering.