There was a rather lengthened silence in that little group before Harwood spoke.
“Yes,” he said; “it struck me that it showed very questionable taste in the man to go about flaunting his money in the face of every one he met. As for his name—well, perhaps we had better not say anything about his name. You recollect what Tennyson makes Sir Tristram say to his Isolt—I don't mean you, Glaston, I know you only read the pre-Raphaelites—
“Let be thy Mark, seeing he is not thine.”
But no one seemed to remember the quotation, or, at any rate, to see the happiness of its present application.
CHAPTER XVI.
It beckons you to go away with it,
As if it some impartment did desire
To you alone.