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She had sat down by his side, and looked into his handsome face, and read poetry to him, because of his wealth, and because it had been indispensable to her to settle herself well. And he had been all very well, a generous, open-hearted, chivalrous, irascible, but rather heavy-minded gentleman; but she had never been in love with him.
For she was undoubtedly slow to understand things nowadays. Her absurd lugging in of the extension-table problem, when the great strategic point of that invitation foisted upon the Presiding Elder came up, was only the latest sample of a score of these heavy-minded exhibitions that recalled themselves to him. And outsiders were apparently beginning to notice it.
It was only John Pringle, heavy-bodied, heavy-minded, who came in and squeaked the door shut behind him. Billy Louise gave him a glance and dropped her head back on the red cushion. "Hello, John!" she greeted tonelessly. John grinned, embarrassed between his pleasure at seeing Billy Louise and his pity for her trouble. His white teeth showed a little under his scraggy, breath-frosted mustache.
We are too much afraid of letting ourselves go and of giving ourselves away. We are heavy-handed and heavy-minded. 'If we can't produce the monuments, we can produce the men who deserve them, said Maude, and Frank wrote the aphorism down upon his shirt-cuff. 'We are too severe both in sculpture and architecture, said he.
I was of a mind to tell the captain who was drinking his liquor but here again I feared, and cursed myself for fearing. When the mate told him of where he had found me, at last what he had done what I had said Schantze laughed.... But, later on, he sympathised with me and unexpectedly remarked: "Johann, how can you expect a heavy-minded numbskull like Miller to understand!"
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