de se lier au mât du navire, ni de se boucher les

firm determination to level all fancied barriers between yourself

and me; resolved that if my world could not be yours, I would

make yours mine; that no pride of birth should curl the lip at

you, for I would turn from it. This I have done. Those who have

shrunk from me because of this, have shrunk from you, and proved

you so far right. Such power and patronage: such relatives of

influence and rank: as smiled upon me then, look coldly now; but

there are smiling fields and waving trees in England's richest