“Will there be never any peace? Will there be no rest?” Mrs. Gould whispered. “I thought that we——”
“No!” interrupted the doctor. “There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it is founded on expediency, and is inhuman; it is without rectitude, without the continuity and the force that can be found only in a moral principle. Mrs. Gould, the time approaches when all that the Gould Concession stands for shall weigh as heavily upon the people as the barbarism, cruelty, and misrule of a few years back.”
“How can you say that, Dr. Monygham?” she cried out, as if hurt in the most sensitive place of her soul.
“I can say what is true,” the doctor insisted, obstinately. “It’ll weigh as heavily, and provoke resentment, bloods
