"I'm not at all surprised, since you can turn to the physical evidence of your own efforts to support you. It gives you an advantage over myself."
"Does it?"
The visitor pointed to the mass of buildings close at hand. "You have all that, and there is no doubt that inanimate things possess a peculiar influence, either strengthening or otherwise. But still I can quite imagine what it means to you to sit here and listen to silence with so many reminders about you. It is one of the things that the servants of humanity must occasionally face."
"Servants?" said Clark curiously.
"Is not a leader also a servant. Has he anything left for himself, and is it not just a different term for the same thing?"
The other man experienced a strange sensation that he had discovered this a long time ago. The bishop had also discovered it, but had not forgotten.
"I have it in my mind that there is another reason why you should not be depressed," went on the prelate assuringly. "You have always demanded too much of yourself; and while you are many kinds of a man you cannot be all kinds."
This was also true. "Go on, sir."
"I have developed no commercial ability, but admit a strong commercial interest, and sometimes think I could have been a good business man myself. I roughly divide them into two classes,—one very large and the other very small."
"Successful and unsuccessful, I assume?"