But if Jessie were unhappy; not on terms with her respectable husband, cleverly as both dissembled—if Jessie still loved him—
"C'est une autre chose!" he muttered between his teeth, and complacently knocking the snow off his boots upon the marble steps of his "mansion."
His most heartless propositions always sought cover in the facile foreign tongue.
A writer in the last generation defined an egotist to be "One who would burn down his neighbor's house to boil an egg for himself."
Orrin Wyllys was an Egotist.
CHAPTER XXII.
The snow-storm waxed furious as the day wore on.
Jessie unclosed the blinds of the windows opposite the bed, that Roy might see it in all its might and beauty.