You may think it is because I am and always shall be a poor man; but if I know myself it is not therefore.

At the same time a title is but a trifle; and if you had given any other reason for not using it than homage to Mammon, I should have said nothing." "For my part," said Miss Graeme, "I have no quarrel with riches except that they do not come my way.

I should know how to use and not abuse them!" Donal made no other reply than to turn a look of divinely stupid surprise and pity upon the young woman.

It was of no use to say anything! Were argument absolutely triumphant, Mammon would sit just where he was before! He had marked the great indifference of the Lord to the convincing of the understanding: when men knew the thing itself, then and not before would they understand its relations and reasons! If truth belongs to the human soul, then the soul is able to see it and know it: if it do the truth, it takes therein the first possible, and almost the last necessary step towards understanding it.
Miss Graeme caught his look, and must have perceived its expression, for her face flushed a more than rosy red, and the conversation grew crumbly.
It was a half-holiday, and he stayed to tea, and after it went over the arm-buildings with Mr.Graeme, revealing such a practical knowledge of all that was going on, that his entertainer soon saw his opinion must be worth something whether his fancies were or not..