"If aught had been needed to spur me on, it had been my meeting with this lady.

It needed that to make me realize to the bitter full the wrong my Lord Ostermore has done me in getting me; to make me realize that I am a man without a name to offer any woman." But Sir Richard, watching him intently, shook his head and fetched a sigh of sorrow and disdain.

"Pshaw, Justin! How we befool ourselves! You think it is not so; you try to think it is not so; but to me it is very plain.

A woman has arisen in your life, and this woman, seen but once or twice, unknown a week or so ago, suffices to eclipse the memory of your mother and turns your aim in life--the avenging of her bitter wrongs--to water.

Oh, Justin, Justin! I had thought you stronger." "Your conclusions are all wrong.