原文 (英语)

CHAPTER I     Man is his own star; and the soul that can     Render an honest and a perfect man     Commands all light, all influence, all fate,     Nothing to him falls early, or too late.     Our acts our angels are, or good or ill,     Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.                            BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. Minks—Herbert Montmorency—was now something more than secretary, even than private secretary: he was confidential-private-secretary, adviser