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They seem to leave you clear out of reckoning, they are so high up. But there's the warmth, drawing arousing wooing, irresistible. You come to find that the warmth of that presence is as irresistible as the ideals and the insistence are unbending. And the warmth woos you.
But most of them, avoiding classification, keep each his several tender significance; as with one I know, not so far from town, which woos you from the valley by gentle ascent between nut-laden hedges, and ever by some touch of keen fragrance in the air, by some mystery of added softness under foot ever a promise of something to come, unguessed, delighting.
You must be for or against lover or enemy bosom friend or outcast. And, oh, the city is a general in the ring. Not only by blows does it seek to subdue you. It woos you to its heart with the subtlety of a siren. It is a combination of Delilah, green Chartreuse, Beethoven, chloral and John L. in his best days. In other cities you may wander and abide as a stranger man as long as you please.
And the wallflower woos the youth unwittingly, thinking the while she is only using her influence the better to instruct him. Indeed, the youngster who has not violently loved a woman old enough to be his mother has dropped something out of his life that he will have to go back and pick up in another incarnation.
"Yet, I hear that few ladies forget when Lord Adrian di Castello woos them." "There was but one man whose company seemed to me worth the recollection," answered Nina, unheeding the insinuation of the artful handmaid. "And who was he?" asked Lucia. "The old scholar from Avignon!" "What! he with the gray beard? Oh, Signora!"
Beauchampism, as one confronting him calls it, may be said to stand for nearly everything which is the obverse of Byronism, and rarely woos your sympathy, shuns the statuesque pathetic, or any kind of posturing. For Beauchamp will not even look at happiness to mourn its absence; melodious lamentations, demoniacal scorn, are quite alien to him. His faith is in working and fighting.
He offers, he calls, he woos, he invites, he prays, he beseeches us, in this day of his grace, to be reconciled to him; yea, and has provided for us the means of reconciliation himself. Now, to despise these must needs be a provoking; and it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Am I, then, a thing to be bartered into the hands of the first fortune-hunter who woos me because he has been bidden so to do, and who is to marry me for political purposes? Pshaw, M. de Luynes!" she added, with a scornful laugh, "after all, I was a fool to expect aught else from " She checked herself abruptly, and a sudden access of mercy left the stinging "you" unuttered.
Dost call thyself forlorn with such fidelity, and deem thyself a wretch, when Paradise with all its beauteous gates but woos thy entrance? Oh! no, no, no, no! thou hast forgot Schirene: I fear me much, thy over-fond Schirene, who doats upon thy image in thy chains more than she did when those sweet hands of thine were bound with gems and played with her bright locks!
For there is a loveliness or fascination sometimes in women between the ages of sixty and eighty that is unlike any other a charm that woos us to regard autumn as beautiful as spring. Perhaps these women were great beauties in their day, but scarcely so serenely beautiful as now when age has refined all that was most attractive.
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