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'I know you will, replied Facey coolly, putting himself in boxing attitude, exclaiming, as he measured out a distance, 'just feel the biceps muscle of my arm do believe I could fell an ox. However, never mind, continued he, seeing Sponge declined the feel. 'Life's uncertain: so you give me an "I.O.U." and we'll be all right and square.
Besides, when you really want anything very much, you have a way of forcing me to want it, too, my master-lover!" He laughed joyously. "Claire," he said, "if we ever do go to smash, you and I, there will have been a glorious day and a glorious house to smash with. It won't be a petty breaking of toy dishes!" "No," she whispered, "it will be the breaking of life's foundations."
Be careful of your reputation, not through vanity, but that you may not harm your life's work, and out of love for truth. There is still something of self-seeking in the refined disinterestedness which will not justify itself, that it may feel itself superior to opinion. It requires ability, to make what we seem agree with what we are, and humility, to feel that we are no great things.
It struck me that this quietly staring man whom I was watching, both as if he were myself and somebody else, was not exactly a lonely figure. He had his place in a line of men whom he did not know, of whom he had never heard; but who were fashioned by the same influences, whose souls in relation to their humble life's work had no secrets for him.
"I could stay here for hours, uncle," said Tom. "I want to know what all these things are for, and how you use them; but I'm ready now." "That's right. The men are coming this morning to begin clearing away." "So soon, uncle?" "Yes, so soon. Life's short, Tom; and at my age one can't afford to waste time. Come along."
I have reached the top of life's hill, nay, I have long since overstepped the ridge; and, as I look back and think of all I have seen and known, it is not to the end that I may get wisdom for myself whereby to do better as I live longer. My old bones are stiff and set; it would be vain now to try to bend them.
There was something at once real and sentimental in Argyle's tone. "And never finding?" said Lilly, laughing. "Oh, what would you? Often finding. Often finding. And losing, of course. A life's history. Give me your glass. Miserable tea, but nobody has sent me any from England " "And you will go on till you die, Argyle?" said Lilly. "Always seeking a friend and always a new one?"
She had no tried standard by which to measure life's values for she had lived her twenty-two years wholly shielded from the human maelstrom, fed, clothed, taught, an untried product of home and schools.
Our idea of what is indispensable to human existence and enjoyment had been wonderfully curtailed, and a horse, a rifle, and a knife seemed to make up the whole of life's necessaries. For these once obtained, together with the skill to use them, all else that is essential would follow in their train, and a host of luxuries besides.
The still air, the hot sunshine, the white beach curving around the deserted sheet of water, the sombre green of the hills, had the motionlessness of things petrified, the vividness of things painted, the sadness of things abandoned, desecrated. And, as if alone intrusted with the guardianship of life's sacred fire, I was moving amongst them, nursing my love for Sera-phina.
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