His affairs were every day becoming more
inextricably involved, and Fenton, it has already been said, with all
his cleverness, had no skill as a financier.
"Well," he commented to himself, shrugging his shoulders, "that is the
end of that; but I did make good play."
The satisfaction of having well acted his part, and of having got the
better of Irons, did much toward restoring the artist's naturally
buoyant spirits. He fell to reckoning his resources, and by dint of
introducing into the account several pleasing but most improbable
possibilities, he succeeded in building up between himself and ruin a
fanciful barrier which for the moment satisfied him; and beyond the
moment he refused to look.
XX
VOLUBLE AND SHARP DISCOURSE.
Comedy of Errors; ii.--I.
Mrs. Amanda Welsh Sampson had in the course of a varied, if not always
dignified career, learned many things. There are people who seem
compelled by circumstances to waste much of their mental energy in
attending to the trivial and sordid details of life, and the widow
often repined that she was one of these unfortunates. She secretly
fretted not a little, for instance, over the fact that she was
compelled to be gracious to servants, to butcher and baker and
candlestick maker, from unmixed reasons of policy.
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