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She stretched her pretty, pleading hands across the table, and her eyes were full of tears. She felt old, and worldly-wise beside this mountain girl, and she was adrift on the alluring sea of personal service. Joyce took no heed of the waiting hands, the inspired face held her. "Don't you see, Joyce, even if this is love that controls you, you would not want it to be selfish?" "No. Oh! No."
You ought and must tell the artist your history, for he has deserved your confidence. The jester's worldly-wise sayings, in which selfishness was always praised as the highest virtue, often seemed very puzzling to the boy, yet many of them were impressed on his young soul.
Pleasant sensation was necessary to lead man to perfection, and he can only be perfect when he feels comfortable. The nature of a mortal being makes unpleasant feeling unavoidable. Evil does not shut man out from the best world, and the worldly-wise find their perfection therein. Thus pain and pleasure are necessary. It seems harder, but it is no less true.
But never mind, my dear, it is your pleasure to duplicate yourself I do not think it is at all a worldly-wise habit; but, of course, that is your affair. Now come into the dining-saloon at once. I have good news for you. Tom has obtained tickets for us all three to see Irving in his great piece 'The Bells." Florence certainly was cheered up by this news.
She accepts things as they appear, without any suspicion of mean ulterior designs. It's a pity, of course! it's a pity she can't be worldly-wise, and scheme and plot and plan and lie like the rest of us! However, your course is plain first interview Lennox and then follow Thelma. She can't have left Hull yet, there are scarcely any boats running to Norway at this season.
Our worldly-wise painter evidently knew that material allurements as well as supreme art were necessary to captivate Philip. It cannot be alleged, all the same, that this purely sensuous mode of conception was not perfectly in consonance with his own temperament, with his own point of view, at this particular stage in his life and practice.
When one had believed that one absolutely understood another, how it startles the mind to discover that this is a mistake! A beautiful old man this had been pious, not very worldly-wise, but having a sweetness of nature, a sunny smile, and a native ease about him that would not have been possible without a quiet conscience.
It pleased him to have his friends predict that she would be a brilliant social success. He was doing everything in his power to make her that, and yet sometimes a vague fear crossed his mind that she was growing cold and selfish. Sometimes she seemed far too old and worldly-wise for a child of her age. He sighed as he looked at her.
They are worldly-wise to a proverb, and yet wildly susceptible to poetry and romance. The songs of such a people have necessarily a great variety: the color and the perfume of life are in them. Listen to the mocking, railing drollery of "There cam' a young man," the sly humor of the "Laird o' Cockpen," or "Hey, Johnnie Cope!" and you may understand one side of Scottish character.
We have been pained more than words can express to see young, generous hearts, yearning with strong desires to consecrate themselves to the cause of their fellow-men, checked and chilled by the ridicule of worldly-wise conservatism, and the solemn rebukes of practical infidelity in the guise of a piety which professes to love the unseen Father, while disregarding the claims of His visible children.
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