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Joseph, in the cloister, or St. Anthony of Padua, whom he loved best of all, and whose statue stood under the willows by the great pool of gold fish. He used to count the hours and the quarter hours as they chimed in the belfry and he was beginning to grow fond of the inexorable routine and to find it passing sweet and restful.
We have been told how many spirits among women are of a wider, stronger, more heroic mould than befits the mere routine of housekeeping. It may be true that there are many women far too great, too wise, too high, for mere housekeeping. But where is the woman in any way too great, or too high, or too wise, to spend herself in creating a home? What can any woman make diviner, higher, better?
Running, jumping, swimming, and flying were considered a necessary part of every one's daily routine, from early youth until old age and death." "Flying," exclaimed I, incredulously, "you surely do not mean to inform me that the Sagemen could fly?"
There are few things in which both men and women naturally differ more than in the elasticity and adaptiveness of their natures, in their power of bearing monotony, in the place which habit, routine, and variety hold in their happiness; and in different kinds of life these things have very different degrees of importance.
And I said to myself as I pondered her future "May the disappointments and sorrows that are almost sure to come, turn her feet aside into the right way at last!" On the day following, the young husband bore his bride away to grace the prouder home that awaited her in New York; and affairs in our town settled themselves down into the old routine.
We plowed along bravely for a week or more, and without any conflict of jurisdiction among the captains worth mentioning. The passengers soon learned to accommodate themselves to their new circumstances, and life in the ship became nearly as systematically monotonous as the routine of a barrack.
She had to leave her comfortable kitchen and her easy routine, for new duties and new faces, and I could see that she anticipated the change with sad dismay. It seemed to me in that hour as though the cruelty and the tenderness of the world were very mysteriously blended there was no lack of tenderness in the old house with its innumerable small associations, its sheltered calm.
Any teacher can take a child to the classroom, but not every teacher can make him learn. He will not work joyously unless he feels that liberty is his, whether he is busy or at rest; he must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way bravely through a dull routine of textbooks.
I never was much of an eater and I need very little sleep. Somehow, although I am out at sunrise most mornings, I rarely sleep till two or thereabouts. Four hours are enough for me and in the summer much less. Sometimes, when the fit is on me, I roam all night long, and come back and do my routine and then sleep where I am, or may be.
"I must have something to live on," said he thoughtfully at last. "So must I," said Newmark. "We'll have to pay ourselves salaries, of course, but the smaller the better at first. You'll have to take charge of the men and the work and all the rest of it I don't know anything about that. I'll attend to the incorporating and the routine, and I'll try to place the stock.
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