[Gutenberg 46049] • Twos and Threes

[...]conviction that safer on his head than on Stuart's would have been poised the Heron crown; deeper still, perhaps, the unacknowledged and pardonable longing once and for all to kick the cub and put him in his proper place. But all of this, Baldwin was well aware, must be loyally suppressed. "It seems to me, Stuart," he remarked, wounded at the reception of his intercession with Sir Michael Forrest, "that you have some ambition of which you haven't told us. If you were to own up, we would naturally give you all the assistance in our power." "I know you would," Stuart interrupted, frowning heavily in the endeavour to express his meaning. "And that's just it. You've got too much assistance in your power. I want to achieve-and you bring me the achievement upon a golden salver. Whatever I mention, it's the same thing; influence, money, [...].