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But of course there is that one touch of nature that makes the whole world kin, and the touch of nature that made Hamlet and Soame Rivers kin to-night was found in the fact that on this night, as on a memorable night of Hamlet's career, in his heart there was 'a kind of fighting' that would not let him sleep. He sat up fully dressed.
Soame Rivers thought to himself, although he hardly put the thought into words even to himself and for his own benefit, that he might have had a good chance of winning Helena Langley to be his wife of having her and her fortune only for this so-called Dictator, whom, as a Briton, he heartily despised.
She became wonderfully composed and gentle. She thought a moment, and then said: 'I heard Mr. Soame Rivers say to-night that he didn't understand Spanish. Was that only his modesty and does he understand it? 'Oh, Mrs. Sarrasin, I wasn't thinking about him. What does it matter whether he understands it or not? 'Nothing whatever, I should say. So it was not he? 'Oh, no, indeed.
Selwyn and the badinage of Soame Rivers, decided to ignore them both, and to address himself entirely to Miss Langley. 'Sorry to say I can't help you much, Miss Langley. When I was in Gloria five years ago I found him there, as I said, running for President. He had been a naturalised citizen there for some time, I reckon, but how he got so much to the front I don't know.
But we all have our weaknesses, even the strongest of us, and Soame Rivers found, when he began to be much in companionship with Helena Langley, where the weak point was to be hit in his panoply of pride. To him love and affection and all that sort of thing were mere sentimental nonsense, encumbering a rising man, and as likely as not, if indulged in, to spoil his whole career.
He doesn't want to set up any claim to sit on the chair himself; all he wants is to assert and to protect the right of Helena to have that chair at any moment when she may choose to join us at luncheon. The rest of the party soon came in from various rooms and consultations. Soame Rivers was the first. 'Miss Langley not coming? he said, with a glance at To-to. 'No, Sir Rupert answered.
But above and beyond all this, Rivers, as a practical philosopher, had broken down, and he found himself in love with Helena Langley. For herself, Helena never suspected it. She had grown to be very fond of Soame Rivers. He seemed to fill for her exactly the part that a good-tempered brother might have done.
She was always so frank in her friendships, so off-hand and boyish in her air of comradeship with many people, that her attitude towards the Dictator did not strike any one, except Soame Rivers, as being in the least marked for her. Indeed, most of her admirers would have held that she was more reserved with the Dictator than with others of her friends.
And though I got at length much larger views of the excellency of Christianity than those presented by Soame Jenyns, I saw not half, I saw not a tenth of its worth and glory. I saw not a tenth even of what I see now. I now see there are no limits to the excellency of Christianity, or to the power of the argument supplied by its glorious character, in proof of its divinity.
'Where were the people all this time? Helena asked eagerly. 'I guess the people didn't understand much about it then, Hiram answered. 'My great deed was too great, Helena murmured once again. 'The usual thing, said Soame Rivers. 'Victory to begin with, and the confidence born of victory; then defeat and disaster.
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