A PAIR OF BLUE SO with
does
a strong sense of his
He may
merit.
57
EYES.
how
see
little
success has
do with merit, and his motive
to
own
may be
his very humility.^
This manner of treating her rather pro-
voked
No
Elfride.
sooner did she agree
with him than he ceased to seem to wish
and took the other
it,
side.
'Ah,' she
thought inwardly, 'I shall have nothing to do with a is
our
man
of this kind, though he
visitor.'
'I think
you will
find,'
resumed Knight,
pursuing the conversation more sake of finishing subject than
ofi*
for
his
life
it
of instinct with
men
—
They awake
the
thoughts on the
engaging her attention,
'that in actual
on.
for
to
is
merely a matter
this trying to
push
a recognition that
they have, without premeditation, begun to try a
little,
and they say to themselves,
" Since I have tried thus much, I will try
a
little
have
more.
be<run.'
They go on because they
