Content
He ceased to shake his clasped hands and, resting them against his forehead, looked right and left of them keenly at his listeners out of his dark stern eyes.
"I met Sir Harry Otway as I came up; I have every reason to hope that I am first in the field.
"Forgive my curiosity; do you, under your new philosophy, graciously intend to live?"
There is some truth in what you say--exaggerated and strained as your view of it is.
