who are they who turn against you?" cried Gabrielle, with a burst
of wordnetanger. "The very men for whom you have toiled, for whom you
have sacrificed all. Oh, the base !"

"! Have I the right to look for  at their hands?"
asked Raven, with quiet, bitter meaning. "No bond of  has
existed between us. They had need of me to work out their plans, and I
had need of them as stepping-stones by which to mount. It has been one
continual  of warfare, a perpetual balancing of our respective
strength. I have often let them feel the power of the hated _parvenu_;
now that the power is in their hands, they overturn me--I could expect
nothing else; but I feel now that Rudolph was right. It is worth
something to have kept one's faith in one's self, in the better, higher
part of one's nature. The man who stands and falls by his principles
can endure reverses; but he who has given the best energies of his life
to a cause which was never his at , which in his inmost  he
must condemn and despise, has no anchor, no stay in the hour of
misfortune."

"And I?" asked Gabrielle,