It has served my turn, and after next week I shall have earned the amount that years ago I determined to earn.

Thenceforth, set above the accidents of fortune, I propose to devote myself to higher aims, those of legitimate ambition.

So far as my time would allow I have already taken some share in politics as a worker; I intend to continue in them as a ruler which I still have the health and ability to do.

I mean to be one of the first men in this Empire, to ride to power over the heads of all the nonentities whose only claim upon the confidence of their countrymen is that they were born in a certain class, with money in their pockets and without the need to spend the best of their manhood in work.

With you at my side I can do all these things and more, and such is the future that I have to offer you." Again she would have broken in upon his speech and again he stopped her, reading the unspoken answer on her lips.
"Listen: I have not told you all.