We Two

By Edna Lyall




CHAPTER I. Brian Falls in Love

Still humanity grows dearer,
Being learned the more. Jean Ingelow.

There are three things in this world which deserve no quarter--
Hypocrisy, Pharisaism, and Tyranny. F. Robertson

People who have been brought up in the country, or in small places
where every neighbor is known by sight, are apt to think that life
in a large town must lack many of the interests which they have
learned to find in their more limited communities. In a somewhat
bewildered way, they gaze at the shifting crowd of strange faces,
and wonder whether it would be possible to feel completely at home
where all the surroundings of life seem ever changing and
unfamiliar.

But those who have lived long in one quarter of London, or of any
other large town, know that there are in reality almost as many
links between the actors of the town life-drama as between those of
the country life-drama.

Silent recognitions pass between passengers who meet day after day