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He hated the idea of coming of age and of having a great deal of money and a great many active duties and responsibilities. His dream was to be left in peace to write his verses; to get away into some sweet impossible wilderness, and sit there singing with as much of the spirit of Omar Kayyam as could reasonably be expected to descend on a youth who only drank water.
"Yet there are many searching truths in the philosophy of Omar Kayyam, Mr. Walden," she said "Many sad facts that even our religion can scarcely get over, don't you think so?" He met her eyes with a gentle kindliness in his own. "I think religion, if true and pure, turns all sad facts to sweetness, Miss Vancourt," he said "At least, so I have found it."
He puts on a mannerism, because he has seen the members of a certain literary 'set' in London put it on but he'll drop that in time, when he is a little older and wiser. He has been in to see me once or twice since he took up his residence here for the summer. He tries to discuss religion with me or rather, I should say. irreligion. His own special 'cult' is the easy paganism of Omar Kayyam."
Julian began to con verses in his head, and he recalled the lines of seventeeth-century Eichard Crashaw: "A Face that's best By its own beauty drest, And can alone command the rest." And he caught himself wondering why, whenever he came near the Lady of the Manor, he was anxious to seem less artificial, less affected, and more of a man than his particular 'Omar Kayyam' set had taught him to be.
Adderley rose from his half recumbent position on the grass, and shading his eyes from the afternoon sunshine, looked towards the house. "Yes, it is even so!" he replied "Primmins and a subordinate are on the way hither with various creature comforts. Music and Poetry must pause awhile. Yet why should there be a pause? It is for this that I am a follower of Omar Kayyam.
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