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A personal habit becomes a "second nature" to the individual, even if he stands alone in its indulgence. But when it is an almost universal habit, coming down from generation to generation, throwing its creepers and clingers around the social customs and industrial economies of a great nation, it is almost like re-creating a world to change that second nature thus strengthened.
"Well, they were so anxious about it that he began next morning, and sent out different ones for different things special kinds of roots, and several sorts of very twisty things, such as grape-vine clingers, and honeysuckle, and a great lot of love-vine that yellow stuff that winds about everything and can choke even a ragweed to death.
"Highly unphilosophic," said Romarin, shaking his head. "Hm!" grunted Marsden, stripping the bone... "Well, I grant it pays in a different way." "It does pay, then?" Romarin asked. "Oh yes, it pays." The restaurant had filled up. It was one frequented by young artists, musicians, journalists and the clingers to the rather frayed fringes of the Arts.
"Well, they were so anxious about it that he began next morning, and sent out different ones for different things special kinds of roots, and several sorts of very twisty things, such as grape-vine clingers, and honeysuckle, and a great lot of love-vine that yellow stuff that winds about everything and can choke even a ragweed to death.
He just naturally loves helplessness, and when Aylette married I told her for mercy's sake not to be one of these new-fashioned kind of wives, but be a clinger. She doesn't like clingers, and sometimes I'm afraid she's too smart to be real happy. She takes after her grandfather Tate. I certainly do thank the Lord He didn't see fit to make me clever.
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