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Mrs. Prohack laughed. "I know that," she said. After a long meditative pause which her husband did not interrupt, she murmured: "So I suppose we shall be what you call rich?" "Some people will undoubtedly call us rich. Others won't." "You know we shan't be any happier," she warned him. "No," Mr. Prohack agreed. "It's a great trial, besides being a great bore. But we must stick it."
You only smile at this confusion of the meditative recluses, but you forget" and a sinister fire glowed in his eyes "that the slave, too, has a soul, in which the same feelings stir as in your own.
But the poet and the philosopher will usually prosper better in the country. A man like myself, who is an observer and of a meditative cast, does better in the country. Emerson, though city born and bred, finally settled in the country. Whitman, on the other hand, loved "populous pavements." But he was at home anywhere under the stars.
His father's mother had died, the head of the family, and not long afterward his father, the tall, meditative, carefully dressed gentleman with the wild flower in his buttonhole, had followed her in death. The big Kröger house together with its honorable history was for sale, and the firm went out of business.
What need she care about those discourteous women, who made it, to be sure, plain enough at their departing, that they took her presence there amiss. On our way home methought she was in a meditative mood, and as we parted she bid me go to see her early next morning.
"He still persists, does he, in spite of never being visible?" "Oh, but he has been seen by ever so many people. Let me think a moment." He sank into an attitude of meditative ease. "The best description I ever had of him was from a friend of my mother, an elderly woman, thoroughly truthful and matter-of-fact. She has seen him often. He is kept in Russia, in St. Petersburg, that was.
A stone-wall, when shrubbery has grown around it, and thrust its roots beneath it, becomes a very pleasant and meditative object. It does not belong too evidently to man, having been built so long ago. It seems a part of nature. Yesterday I found two mushrooms in the woods, probably of the preceding night's growth.
Be it so, if you will; but, alas, it was a dream of evil omen for young Goodman Brown! a stern, a sad, a darkly meditative, a distrustful, if not a desperate, man, did he become from the night of that fearful dream. On the Sabbath-day, when the congregation were singing a holy psalm, he could not listen, because an anthem of sin rushed loudly upon his ear and drowned all the blessed strain.
On the contrary, he found it a perfectly congenial occupation to lounge among the cushions of the gondola and let Pietro row him home at his own leisurely rate, while the two good comrades had a meditative smoke.
"Is she engaged to be married?" "No. She has had plenty of offers; but she doesn't seem to care for anything of that sort so far. Devotes herself to Mrs. Farnaby, and keeps up her school-friendships. A splendid creature, with the vital thermometer at temperate heart a calm, meditative, equable person. Pass me the olives.
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