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Her Aunt Christina has married, and she has gone to live in Zurich; Anna is now alone with her father and Gretchen. She has developed in all ways; that hurried journey to the foot of the mountain had been a mental tonic to the girl. She has learned to be self-reliant in a true way, and she has found out the truth of a very old proverb, which says, "No one knows what he can do till he tries."
It is well to consider something of the opposition that confronts a man who tries to fill his life with a brave purpose. He will be told it is an illusion; he is a dreamer, a crank, or a fool. And it may serve a purpose to see if our critics are blinded by no illusion, to contrast our folly with their wisdom. Here is one pushing by who will not be a fool, as he thinks he's for the emigrant-ship.
You can't come to grief that way. But with men, it is almost impossible to be quite natural. As for being straightforward, don't they misconstrue our words continually? And when one tries to be unselfish, they accuse one of hardness, coldness, and everything most contrary to one's feelings. Of course," she added quickly, "I speak from observation. I have nothing to complain of myself."
The first requisite for success to the husbands of women who live like that is the appearance of success. Their status, their front, is the one thing they can't do without. Well, and it's a curious fact that a man can't keep up his own front. If he tries to dress extravagantly, wear diamonds, spend his money on himself, he doesn't look prosperous. He looks a fool. People won't take him seriously.
The pretender to politeness is a cheat. He tries to palm off the base for the genuine; and, although he may deceive the vulgar, he cannot overreach the cultivated.
"Brother Ridley is good, no doubt, and it is right to go and hear him I hain't disputed that but when he tries to bring our thoughts to the Lord, he has to do it through his own work, his writin', which he did himself with a steel pen.
That is my belief. Any criticism which tries to rob me of that I shall look at fairly, but very severely indeed. If all that a man wants is a 'religion, he ought to be able to make a very pretty one for himself, and a fresh one as often as he is tired of the old.
And now he continues to attack it both ways; for he endeavours to root up this genuine seed by means of human force, and at the same time tries every effort to choke it with his tares, that it may not grow and produce fruit.
Desperate, at length the tottering plank he tries, His weak steps slide, he shrieks, he sinks he dies!
If you fail to produce a complainant by half-past four precisely, out of here I go and I'm sorry for the man who tries to stop me." The detective took a chair, crossed his legs, and produced a cigar which he began to trim with tender care.
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