"I am bound," he answered gloomily; and we walked a few minutes in silence.
"You will change your manner of thinking, Miss Randolph," he began again. "Yours is the vision of inexperienced eyes and of impulsive generosity. It will not remain what it is."
"Inexperienced eyes see the clearest," I answered. "The habit of wrong is no help towards judging of the right."
"You will think differently by and by."
"Not while I am a servant of God and He commands me to break every yoke, to do as I would be done by, to look not on my own things, but also on the things of others. We owe our poor people not liberty only, but education, and every advantage for restored civilisation; - a great long debt."
"And is this the reason why you will not look favourably on my suit?" he said after another interval.
"It is a reason why you will not wish to prosecute it, Mr. De
Saussure."
"You are very severe!" he said. "Do you really think that?"
"You know it is true. I do not wish to be severe."
"Have you then no kindness for me?"