did not necessarily imply self-control; for some people can rule every
body except themselves. But Robert Roy's clear, calm, rather sad eye,
and a certain patient expression about the mouth, implied that he too had
enough of the hard training of life to be able to govern himself. And
that is more difficult to a man than to a woman.

"all thy passions, matched with mine,
Are as moonlight unto sunlight,
and as water unto wine."

A truth which even Fortune's tender heart did not fully take in, deep as
was her sympathy for him; for his toilsome, lonely life, lived more in
shadow than in sunshine, and with every temptation to the selfishness
which is so apt to follow self-dependence, and the bitterness that to a
proud spirit so often makes the sting of poverty. Yet he was neither
selfish nor bitter; only a little reserved, silent, and--except with
children--rather grave.

She stood watching him now, for she could see him a long way off across
the level Links, and noticed that he stopped more than once to look at
the golf-players. He was a capital golfer himself, but had never any
time to play. Between his own studies and the teaching by which he
earned the money to prosecute them, every hour was filled up. So he
turned his back on the pleasant pastime, which seems to have such an
extraordinary fascination for those who pursue it, and came on to his
daily work, with that resolute deliberate step, bent on going direct to
his point and turning aside for nothing.

Fortune knew it well by this time; had learned to distinguish it from all
others in the world. There are some footsteps which, by a pardonable