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His loneliness had forced him to revise that dream by the addition of Martha Bagley; he needed a companion, contemporary, and foil. His mental playlet no longer closed with James Holden standing alone before the Bench. Now it ended with Martha saying proudly, "James, I knew you could do it." Martha Bagley's brilliance would not conflict with his. He could stay ahead of her forever.
It was, he thought next, because as he had taken her about from one place to another he had known that she had seen in things what he had seen in them so long the melancholy loneliness, the significance of it, the lost hopes that lay behind it, the touching pain of the stateliness wrecked.
I was not of a superstitious turn of mind; yet I could not resist a feeling of awe very nearly allied to the fear which my companion had so unreservedly expressed; and when you consider my situation, the loneliness, antiquity, and gloom of the place, you will allow that the weakness was not without excuse.
After leaving Vienna, and long before you come to Budapest, the Danube enters a region of singular loneliness and desolation, where its waters spread away on all sides regardless of a main channel, and the country becomes a swamp for miles upon miles, covered by a vast sea of low willow-bushes.
I have been weary many times, and sad often; and I have been light of heart and very glad; but my sadness and my weariness, my lightness and my joy have only blessed me, whenever I have shared them with Thee. I have shut myself up in a perverse loneliness, I have closed the door of my heart, miserable that I am, even upon Thee.
Oppressed thus with a vast sense of spiritual loneliness, when he uttered the inspirations of Art, the memories of playful palms and floating lilies and fluttering wings, though they came warm to the Love of his heart, were attuned in the outward expression to the deep, solemn, prevailing monotone of his humanity.
Braver even than these are the men who have faced loneliness without hope who have looked not merely on solitude, but on solitude ending in defeat and death and still have lived as those who had no fear. The classic example of this great heroism has been given to the world by our own age, in the story of Captain Scott.
I thought of the guards, the senators, the ambassadors, that had crowded this spot, the spoils, trophies, and monuments, that had adorned it; and my heart sank at the sight of its naked desolation and dreary loneliness. The flat top of the hill ran off to the south, covered with a various and somewhat incongruous vegetation.
"And you will come with us," said Lawless, "away from this loneliness?" "It is not lonely," was the reply. "To hear the thrum of the pigeon, the whistle of the hawk, the chatter of the black squirrel, and the long cry of the eagle, is not lonely. Then, there is the river and the pines all music; and for what the eye sees, God has been good; and to kill pumas is my joy. . . . So, I cannot go.
For solitude and loneliness and heart-hunger had given her the power of an astral being; she was in communication with all the finer forces that pervade our ether. He would love her back to life and light he told her so. She grew better. And soon we find her getting up and throwing wide the shutters.
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