[SPAM] Stool before it and herself carried in a tray with re

Lieved to be his duty, he would enjoy the fruits of a quiet mind. This
was not so. Before many hours had passed he was wrestling with the
incident anew; and a true son of that nation which, for all its
level-headedness, spends its best strength in fighting shadows, he felt
a great deal angrier in retrospect than he had done at the moment. It
was not alone the fact of him having got his conge--no medico was safe
from THAT punch below the belt. His bitterness was aimed at himself.
Once more he had let himself be hoodwinked; had written down the smooth
civility it pleased Ocock to adopt towards him to respect and esteem.
Now that the veil was torn, he saw how poor the lawyer's opinion of him
actually was. And always had been. For a memory was struggling to emerge
in him, setting strings in vibration. And suddenly there rose before him
a picture of Ocock that time had dimmed. He saw the latter standing in
the dark, crowded lobby of the court-house, cursing at him for letting
their witness escape. There it was! There, in these two scenes, far
apart as they lay, you had the whole man. The unctuous blandness, the
sleek courtesy was but a mask, which he wore for you just so long as you
did not hinder him by getting in his way. That was the unpardonable sin.
For Ocock was out to succeed--to succeed at any price and by any means.
In tracing his course, no goal but this had ever stood before him. The
obligations that bore on your ordinary mortal--a sense of honesty, of
responsibility to one's fellows, the soft pull of domestic ties--did not
trouble Ocock. He laughed them down, or wrung their necks like so many
pullets. And should the poor little woman who bore his name become a
drag on him, she would be tossed on to the rubbish-heap with the rest.
In a way, so complete a freedom from altruistic motives had something
grandiose about it. But those who ran up against it, and could not fight
it with its own weapons, had not an earthly chance. Thus Mahony sat in
judgment, giving rein for once to his ingrained dislike for the man of
whom he had now made

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