" But when I think about myself, and compare myself with others, especially with my brother, I feel I'm a poor creature.

" "But in what way?" Kitty pursued with the same smile.

" Don't you too work for others? What about your co-operative settlement, and your work on the estate, and your book?..." "Oh, but I feel, and particularly just now--it's your fault," he said, pressing her hand--"that all that doesn't count.