Is that exaggerated ?" "I suppose not, but he--" "Has his compensations: Clean conscience--freedom from worry--fresh air, all the rest of it! I know.

Clean conscience granted, but so has your Malloring, it would seem.

Freedom from worry--yes, except when a pair of boots is wanted, or one of the children is ill; then he has to make up for lost time with a vengeance.

Fresh air--and wet clothes, with a good chance of premature rheumatism.

Candidly, which of those two lives demands more of the virtues on which human life is founded--courage and patience, hardihood and self-sacrifice?
And which of two men who have lived those two lives well has most right to the word 'superior' ?" Stanley dropped the Review and for fully a minute paced the room without reply.