CHAPTER VI

THE SUPREME APPEAL COURT THOUGH self-congratulation is not precisely the same thing as pride, common experience teaches us that it is usually followed, if not by a fall, at least by a disappointment. French’s satisfaction at his rapid progress was no doubt natural, but its sequence proved an illustration of this unhappy principle. After his first day’s achievement there followed a period of stagnation. It was not that he did not show energy and industry. On the contrary, no one could have done more. Rather was it a…