" Sybil looked calmly across the room at
John, who was talking earnestly to Sam Wyndham.
"But has he no defects at all? What a model of faultlessness!" exclaimed
Ronald.
"People say he is self-centred, whatever that may mean. He is certainly a
very ambitious man, but his ambitions are large, and he makes no secret of
them. He will make a great stir in the world some day."
Ronald would have liked to ask about Vancouver also, but he fortunately
remembered what Joe had told him that morning, and did not ask his
questions of Sybil. But he went home that night wondering what manner of
man this Harrington might be, concerning whom such great things were said.
He was conscious also that he had not been very wise in what he had asked
of Sybil, and he was dissatisfied at not having heard anything about the
friendship that existed between Harrington and Joe. But on the whole he
had enjoyed the evening very much--almost too much, when he remembered the
things Joe had said to him in the morning.
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