Yet since it is important to explain what James was really getting and not what he thought he was, it is necessary to record something of the two things which happened just before Mr. Timson made his desperate proposal. One of these is what Edwin Castor said to Mr. Timson, and the other is what he said to his son. Until now the real Edwin Castor has not appeared in this story. Hitherto he has been represented by the effigy of himself to which James set up his altar, and has appeared only as one of the princes in whom James put his trust. However, he did exist; a sad, cold man, who suffered secretly with a dyspepsia which his dignity would not permit him to own. He was ambitious, and he was genuinely superior in mind to most of the people about him. He was intolerant of fools and unreasonably irritated by the minor weaknesses of less perfect men. This irritation was born of a genuine mistake, a genuine ignorance of a part of life of whose existence he had no inkling. He was a cold man by nature, and had no conception of the force of the emotions possessed by warmer temperaments.
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