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"But if it's a thousand years ago," he laughed, "that song smacks too much perhaps of actuality, and I had best choose another." Maria Dolores joined in his laugh. "I did not know you sang," she said. "Let me hear the other." "A song," reflected he, "that I could sing with a good deal of feeling and conviction, would be 'Give her but the least excuse to love me."
They had met thus as opposed curiosities, and that simple remark of Milly's if simple it was became the most important thing that had ever happened to her; it deprived the love-interest, for the time, of actuality and even of pertinence; it moved her first, in short, in a high degree, to gratitude, and then to no small compassion.
A distinguished Scotch philosopher of the last generation laid it down that, in literature, for demonstrative exhibitions of affection and sorrow "the occasion should be adequate, and the actuality rare."
On the 15th of April Father Hecker left Cairo for Jerusalem, and spent some weeks in the Holy Land, continuing to enjoy an interval of spiritual relief. He writes: "In reciting the Gloria and the Credo, after having been in the localities where the great mysteries which they express took place, one is impressed in a wonderful manner with their actuality.
First, we shall see that the cycles are there, and operative: action and reaction regnant in the world, a tide in the affairs of men; and strong souls coming in from time to time, to manipulate reactions, to turn the currents at strategic points in time; making things, despite what evils may be ahead, flow on to higher levels than their own weight would carry them to: thus did Augustus and Tiberius; or throwing them down, as the merry Julius did, from bright possibilities to a sad and lightless actuality.
"The highest product, man," she said, "is the result of the spirit working intelligently within. But man attains his highest and becomes perfect only through his own voluntary co-operation with the Spirit." Doctor Kingsford regarded Jesus as a spiritual Ideal and an Eternal Verity, and Religion as an ever-present actuality. We find her saying:
"I think I remember now that I told you, did I not, that you were not likely to be a soldier because you could pretend it too well ever to be the thing in actuality." "I remember that too. Dhe! how the whole thing comes back! I wonder " "Well!" she pressed. "I wonder if we walked in the Duke's garden again, if we could restore the very feelings of that time the innocence and ignorance of it?"
After I enter your mind, my last act will be to release the simple block that makes Timmy an imbecile ... he will awaken and not know that he has slept all his life until this moment when he becomes in actuality an ordinary, quite intelligent boy. He will not grieve unduly for Homer, and I who have two bodies and am at home in neither of them will be a record that will finally be erased.
That possibility of lifting up our puny wills against the all- sovereign, Infinite Will is the mystery of mysteries. The fact that the mysterious possibility becomes an actuality in us is still more mysterious. If we could solve those two mysteries, we should be far on the way to solve all the mysteries of man's relation to God, and God's to man.
Having failed to force that issue, he bided his time, sensing with melancholy portent the certainty that he would soon be confronted with the stark and hateful actuality. Thus he wore somewhat away from his grim resolve to kill Swann. That adventure on the country road, when he had discovered Swann with Helen instead of Lorna, had somehow been a boon.
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