human
As this menacing epistle recurred to him, Dick felt his desire to yawn incontinently checked. His brow grew very dark; and he walked with restless strides, on and on, till he found himself in the Strand. He then got into an omnibus, and proceeded to the city, wherein he spent the rest of the day, looking over machines and foundries, and trying in vain to find out what diabolical invention the over-competition of Mr. Dyce had got hold of.
gpt
If, said Dick Avenel to himself, as he returned fretfully homeward--
human
And yet I entered on life with no patrimony--(save a ruined hall and a barren waste)--no patrimony but knowledge. I have but turned knowledge from books to men; for books may give fame after death, but men give us power in life.