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And particularly did he remark the chalky girdle with which the new districts encompassed the ancient, central, sun-tanned quarters, thus symbolising an effort at rejuvenescence, the old heart but slowly mended, whereas the outlying limbs were renewed as if by miracle.
It used to be pleasant in the afternoon, after the day's work was done and before one went on with the evening's study how odd it would have seemed in the old time for a young man of the industrial class to be doing post-graduate work in sociology, and how much a matter of course it seems now! to walk out into the gardens of Lowchester House, and smoke a cigarette or so and let her talk ramblingly of the things that interested her. . . . Physically the Great Change did not do so very much to reinvigorate her she had lived in that dismal underground kitchen in Clayton too long for any material rejuvenescence she glowed out indeed as a dying spark among the ashes might glow under a draught of fresh air and assuredly it hastened her end.
"Until he settles and makes a home for himself," smiled Mina irrepressibly; the rejuvenescence nay, the unbroken youth of her relative appeared to her quaintly humorous, and it was her fancy to refer to him as she might to a younger brother. There was Mr Iver to be said good-by to. "Come again soon you're always welcome; you wake us up, Madame Zabriska." "You promised to say Mina!"
Except for that strange tranquillity of voice and the disappearance of the flush on his brow, there was no sign of the rejuvenescence that she brought, of such refreshment as steals on the traveller who sits down beneath a lime-tree toward the end of along day's journey; no sign of the mysterious comfort distilled into his veins by the sight of her moody young face, her young, soft limbs.
Superb equipages mingled in democratic confusion with carts and wagons; the broken-winded nag and spavined crowbait veterans at the bugle call! pricked up their ears and kicked up their heels like colts in pasture, while the delighted darkies thumped their bony shanks to encourage this brief rejuvenescence.
Assuredly, the rejuvenescence of science and of art; the widening of the field of Nature by geographical and astronomical discovery; the revelation of the noble ideals of antique literature by the revival of classical learning; the stir of thought, throughout all classes of society, by the printers' work, loosened traditional bonds and weakened the hold of mediæval Supernaturalism.
You have in yourself another kind of grace, another wit, another coquetry, and above all that rejuvenescence of heart and mind which those women have never had. You have an eagerness in life, a need of expansion, a freshness of impression which are though perhaps you may not imagine it irresistible charms.
It was almost a rejuvenescence, and there was gratitude in the gaze she turned on Rogers. "This is all true, I suppose?" asked the veiled lady. "All quite true, madame," answered Julie, with a shrug. "I was younger then and the love of excitement was too strong for me. I am older now, and have more sense besides, I am no longer sought after as I was."
For us, however, his style is of less importance than the fact that he applied it almost wholly to the carrying out of that rejuvenescence of romance of which we have been speaking, and which may be taken, as anybody pleases, either for a mere alternative to the domestic novel or as a definite revolt against it.
There are some mechanical aids in reading which may prove of great utility, and form a kind of rejuvenescence of our early studies. Montaigne placed at the end of a book which he intended not to reperuse, the time he had read it, with a concise decision on its merits; "that," says he, "it may thus represent to me the air and general idea I had conceived of the author, in reading the work."
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