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This landscape has never awakened into life; it's still dreaming in its primitive sleep." "In time," I put in, "you mean a man living here might become brutal?" "The passions would run wild, selfishness become supreme, the instincts coarsen and turn savage probably." "But "
Kate was too forthright for sparring. "Why not?" she asked. "For one thing, you are doing a man's work," he said. "For another, I hate to see you burn the loveliest hair I ever saw on the head of a woman, and coarsen your fine skin." Kate looked down at the ear of corn she held in her hands, and considered an instant. "There hasn't any man been around asking to relieve me of this work," she said.
So I could appreciate your mother more than the natives. I came here a roundabout way from Boston. So did your mother's folks, about forty-five years ago. She looked as Yankee as her blood, thin and delicate, with a refined face. And all the coarse work women have to do in Lost Chief didn't coarsen her." "How do you mean, coarse work?" asked Doug.
He was delicately featured, with a little pointed beard, tiny mustachios, and long, fair hair that fell in waves about his effeminate face. He had the whitest of hands, very delicately veined in blue, and it was as I soon observed his habit to carry them raised, so that the blood might not flow into them to coarsen their beauty.
He turned toward her quickly. "Look at me!" she commanded, and he obeyed. He saw her pale skin, which the touch of the sun seemed to have no power to burn or coarsen. The clear, wonderful eyes, the delicate eyebrows, the masses of dark hair, the scarlet lips. He saw her white throat swelling underneath her muslin blouse. The daintiness of her gown, airy and simple, yet fresh from a Paris workshop.
If he is brought to cold hill-country in Australia his coat at once begins to coarsen, and his wool is therefore not so good. As you pass the sheep-runs in the train you will probably notice that they are divided into paddocks by fine-mesh wire-netting. That is to keep the rabbits out. The rabbit is accounted rather a desirable little creature in Great Britain.
It became an open secret that he had a pull, that his position was impregnable. This in turn tended to coarsen his methods. It lifted him beyond the domain of competitive effort. It touched his carelessness with arrogance. It also tinged his arrogance with occasional cruelty.
"Of course it's a shame!" the boy agreed hotly. "Papa, won't you ring for the landlady and tell her so, and then she won't be sent away." "My dear Dicky," his father answered, "you mistake. I was thinking that it was a shame to coarsen such hands with housework."
It was the girl whom he had met on his way to the Manse the first day of his arrival. Jess's experience as a maid to her ladyship has stood her in good stead. She had a fineness of build which even the housework of a farm could not coarsen. Besides, Winsome considered Jess delicate, and did not allow her to lift anything really heavy.
As a late writer has said: "As soon as the thoughts of a great spiritual leader pass to others and form the animating principle of a party, or school, or sect, there is an inevitable drop. The disciples cannot keep pace with the sweep of the Master. They flutter where he soared. They coarsen and materialize his dreams.... This is the tragedy of all who lead.
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