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Real artists exist only for art, for the theatre.... Everything else is pale beside what they regard as their vocation.... She was a dilettante. At this point Aratov fell to pondering again. 'No, the word dilettante did not accord with that face, the expression of that face, those eyes....
The signs of our vocation are, therefore, as stated: first, a strong desire, and second, an aptitude for the state to which we believe we are called. For example, a young man might be very holy, but if unable to learn, he could never be a priest. Another might be very learned and holy, but if too sickly to perform a priest's duties, he could not, or at least would not, be ordained.
Anything seemed to him better than a day's ploughing: even getting up at three in the morning to go to a fair. He went to bed early, as he used to, and they talked of him over the fire, as they used to. But however much they talked, they never seemed to find what they were seeking his vocation until one evening an idea suddenly rose out of their talk.
Aunt Judy meanwhile, who had been quite unable to resist joining in the laugh herself, was seated on the floor, behind the open door of the wardrobe, thinking to herself of certain passages in Wordsworth's most beautiful ode, in which he has described the play of children, "As if their whole vocation Were endless imitation." Truly they had got hold here of strange
Four or five, perhaps six hundred a year she must have at least that, for opera singers are very well paid, so I have always heard would " "But, Mother Philippa, the whole question is whether Evelyn has a vocation. We know what the advantages would be," said Mother Hilda in a low, insinuating voice which always exasperated the Reverend Mother.
Are the low trickery, the organised lies of the bar, a great calling? Is the mechanical slavery of the soldier fighting because he is in the way of fighting, without knowing the cause, without an object, save a dim, foolish vanity which he calls glory, and cannot analyse is that a great aim and vocation?
He took those folded hands in his, gently parted them, and held them against the cross upon his heart. "You have chosen rightly, my child," he said; "we will pray that grace and strength may be vouchsafed you, so that you may continue, without faltering, along the pathway of this fresh vocation." She looked at him with searching gaze.
"What's dat?" he said. "An oxy-acetylene blow-pipe." "Search me," said Spike, blankly. "Dat gets past me." Jimmy's manner grew more severe. "Can you make soup?" "Soup, boss?" "He doesn't know what soup is," said Jimmy, despairingly. "My good man, I'm afraid you have missed your vocation. You have no business to be trying to burgle. You don't know the first thing about the game."
In their especial vocation this tendency caused my family to be accused of formalism and artificial pedantry; and the so-called "classical" school of acting, to which they belonged, has frequently since their time been unfavorably compared with what, by way of contrast, has been termed the realistic or natural style of art.
'We went into the dining-room, and dinner was served, she recommenced, 'and there I had my first shock, my first doubt, for one of the two waiters was your spy. 'Shawn! My detective! Hugo was surprised to find that Albert, almost a novice in his vocation, had contrived to be so insinuating. 'And he made a very bad waiter indeed, Camilla added. 'I regret it, said Hugo.
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