jaw which I had not observed there hitherto. It gave him an ugliness of expression which only emphasized his perfection of feature.
“You mustn’t do that either,” said he, shortly. “I have an appointment at the station. I shall be talking business all the time.”
He was gone to his room, and I went to mine feeling duly snubbed; yet I deserved it; for I had exhibited a characteristic (though not chronic) want of taste, of which I am sometimes guilty to this day. Not to show ill-feeling on the head
was resigned, and for others I must trust Him no less. Who was I to constitute myself the protector of the helpless, when He was in His Heaven? Such was my sunset mood; it lasted a few minutes, and then, without radically changing, it became more objective.
The west was a broadening blaze of yellow