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He added benevolently, "If you're scared of the road, come right through my place here, and I'll set you on your own farm double quick." It was with pleasurable fear that the girls got through the fence with his help. They whispered to each other their self-excuses, saying that mamma would like them to be in their own fields as quickly as possible. The moonlight was now gloriously bright.
Remembering with what thoughts he had gone to Adelaide, he felt wholly responsible for the broken engagement, felt that he had done a contemptible thing, had done it in a contemptible way; and he was almost despising himself, looking about the while for self-excuses.
The visit was not unexpected; for at every such crisis every one is certain of a call from this Visitor, this merciless critic, plain and rude of speech, rare and reluctant in praise, so mocking in our moments of elation, so cruelly frank about our follies and self-excuses when he comes in our moments of depression. "So you are going to marry?" the Visitor said abruptly.
Such was the nature of the self-excuses by which the Saxon defended his resolves, and they appeared to him more sanctioned by the stake which depended on success a stake which his undying patriotism allowed to be far more vast than his individual ambition.
Used as Sally was to meeting every emergency with cool shrewdness, she could not bring to her present situation the necessary philosophy, because she was ill, and fear-stricken, and made crazy by the impossibility of finding a solution to her anxieties. Hour after hour was spent with horrible nightmarish imaginings, in frenzied self-excuses and improvised expedients.
"Rice! I am faint with hunger," he whispered. As if the few words had taken his last store of strength, he sank to the floor. Mata sprang to him. He had swooned. His face, young and beautiful in spite of the centuries of pain upon it, lay back, helpless, on her arm. Like a true woman she began to make self-excuses for the change.
Such was the nature of the self-excuses by which the Saxon defended his resolves, and they appeared to him more sanctioned by the stake which depended on success a stake which his undying patriotism allowed to be far more vast than his individual ambition.
The one honored the laborer, and the other scorned him. The one was simple and direct; the other, complex, full of sophistries and self-excuses.
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