"
The rumour of Lorrimer's engagement, however, proved to be false. It
was another Lorrimer, a cousin of his.
"Lorrimer is restored to your good graces now, I suppose," Claudia
said, in her half sarcastic way, when the mistake was explained. I had
not told her what was in my mind; she had read my thoughts. "You think
that a man whom Ideala has loved should consider himself sacred," she
added.
I did not answer. But I hold that all men who have felt or inspired
great love will be sanctified by it if there be any true nobility in
their nature; and I knew that one man, whom Ideala did not love, had
been so sanctified by love for her, and held himself sacred always.
But it was a relief to my mind to know that Lorrimer was not unworthy.
He was a distinguished man then, and I felt sure that he would become
still more distinguished eventually. He was not one of the many who
come and go, and are forgotten; but one of those destined to live for
ever
In minds made better by their presence.
The good in his nature was certainly as far above the average as were
his splendid abilities, and Ideala was right when she declared that she
could answer for his principles.
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