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Whatever her other failings, Elsie had been a trustworthy guide; she had brought me out of the depth of elf-land into the material world again. It had been a singular adventure, certainly; and I mused over it with a sense of mysterious pleasure as I sauntered along, humming snatches of airs, and accompanying myself on the strings. Hark! what light step was that behind me?
Marston was a fellow of a good deal of humour, and relished practical joking rather more than was consistent with the comfort of other people. We cannot commend him for this trait of character. But it was one of his faults, and all men have their failings.
But Grace advised him better. "Be humbled as you may before God, my father, but stand up boldly before man: for in his sight, and by his law, you are little short of blameless. I would not, dearest father, speak to you of sins, except for consolation under them; for it ill becomes a child to see the failings of a parent.
I will not seek with convincing falsehoods and unscrupulous sophistry to hide the fact that Jake D'Annunzio Spout was never quite a gentleman. Others have endeavoured to do this and to my mind it is not only degrading but quite unworthy of the man's genius to dwell on such paltry failings as bad table manners, slight personal uncleanliness and the like.
"Senex" has seen three generations grow up, the son repeating the virtues and the failings of the father, the grandson showing the same characteristics as the father and grandfather.
Internally, as Michelangelo pointed out, the church would have been dark, inconvenient, and dangerous to public morals. Whatever we may think of Michelangelo's failings as an architect, there is no doubt that at this period of his life he aimed at something broad and heroic in style. He sought to attain grandeur by greatness in the masses and by economy of the constituent parts.
Comic writers poked fun at these failings which are only too self-evident and showered ridicule upon them.
"Because Emma didn't know you were coming," continued Miss Tyrell, "and she's always shy. So you must be bold, you know." The mate nodded as confidently as he could. "Shyness has never been one of my failings," he said, nervously. Further conversation was rendered difficult, if not impossible, by one which now took place outside.
So she's been living on people ever since." Ella rocked gloomily. "But she does it so nicely," Flora suggested. She still had the feeling that it was not decent to own up to these most secret facts of people's failings. "Oh, yes, she's a perfect wonder," Ella admitted grudgingly; "look at what she's done for you!" Ella's gesticulation was eloquent of how much that had been.
And so it comes about that our virtues and our failings have more to do with the length of our legs than we think. The other day I met in the street a young lady who, but yesterday, seemed to me a young girl. She had in the interval taken that sudden leap from youth to maturity which is always so wonderful and perplexing.
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