Page:Eliot - Felix Holt, the Radical, vol. II, 1866.djvu/256

This page has been proofread, but needs to be validated.
246
FELIX HOLT.

thought it likely that events would soon guide him. Christian was beginning to meditate a way of securing his own ends without depending in the least on Johnson's procedure. It was enough for him that he was now assured of Esther's legal claim on the Transome estates.