That counts for a little, though perhaps it shouldn't." Once more Mrs.Kinnaird's astonishment was very evident.
"It shouldn't ?" "That's just what I meant.

If a man is clean of character, and has grit and snap in him, I don't know that one could reasonably look for anything further.

I can't see how the fact that his grandfather was this or that is going to affect him.

The man we're talking of has grit.

I offered him promotion, and he wouldn't take it." "Ah," said his companion, "didn't that strike you as significant ?" Stirling looked thoughtful.
"Well," he admitted slowly, "as a matter of fact, it didn't; but it does now." He sat silent for almost a minute, with wrinkled forehead, while Mrs.
Kinnaird watched him covertly.