Cricklander--but I can't do it."
"Well, you can thank whichever of your stars has brought you to this
conclusion," growled the Professor. "I suppose I'll pull through somehow
financially," the restless visitor went on, pacing the floor--"anyway,
for a few years; there may be something more to be squeezed out of
Derringham. I must see."
"Well, if you are not marrying that need not distress you," Cheiron
consoled him with. "Those things only matter if a man has a son."
John Derringham stopped abruptly in his walk and looked at his old
master.
His words gave him a strange twinge, but he crushed it down, and went on
again:
"It is a curse, this want of money," he said. "It makes a man do base
things that his soul revolts against." And then, in his restless moving,
he absently picked up a volume of Aristotle, and his eye caught this
sentence: "The courageous man therefore faces danger and performs acts
of courage for the sake of what is noble."
And what did an honorable man do? But this question he would not go
further into.
"You were out very late last night, John," Mr.
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