and voice of a
responsive mood. "Really," she began, with a soft glance,
half-deprecation, half-pride, bent upon the others, and with thoughtful
deliberation,--"really the important thing is that he should pursue some
object--have in view something that he is determined to master. Without
that, he is not contented--not at his best. He should have been a
soldier. He has a passion for battle in his blood. And now that he sees
something he is eager to do--I am very glad. It makes it none the less
acceptable that good is to come from it."

"I still maintain," said Miss Madden, interpolating her words through
the task of lighting a cigarette, and contriving for them an effect of
drollery which appealed to Thorpe most of all--"I shall always insist,
just the same, that crime was his true vocation."

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