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The religious sentimentalism, which finds a broadly humorous commentary in the after-thoughts of either speaker, puts the old-world French chat of men and women, with its pleasant familiarity, its lively ease, quite out of the question; they make love in a mist nowadays.
The Leighton cottage was a rambling structure, suggesting a series of architectural after-thoughts. Its location could hardly have been surpassed, for it stood on a rise of ground so that in any direction one looked across fertile valleys to encircling hills. A porch ran about three sides of the house, shaded here and there by vines.
These were after-thoughts, however; at present she leaned giddily against the house-side, trying, in the wild hurrying night-rack of her thoughts, to distinguish some tiny star of hope, or even some glimmer of reason. Impossible! Nothing but swift, confused clouds everywhere, driving wildly on, whither? But a desire came upon her to see her boy again, and compare his face to his father's.
So little would have been needed, a little hint, a loving word of direction, a gentle stay and everything would have been well. But these are idle and tormenting after-thoughts, perhaps quite erroneous too. I was not so undesirable a suitor, even though I was three years her junior.
Poor Haydon says in one phrase that he paid all his friends on such a day, and in another soon following that the money given or lent to him had been insufficient to pay them completely; and assuredly there are many revisions, after-thoughts, or other accidents to account for such a slip.
Merton spoke, a sudden recollection returned to Maltravers. He had heard Lumley himself refer to the engagement, but it had been in the sick chamber of Florence, little heeded at the time, and swept from his mind by a thousand after-thoughts and scenes. Mr. Merton continued, "We expect Lord Vargrave down soon. He is an ardent lover, I conclude; but public life chains him so much to London.
Merton spoke, a sudden recollection returned to Maltravers. He had heard Lumley himself refer to the engagement, but it had been in the sick chamber of Florence, little heeded at the time, and swept from his mind by a thousand after-thoughts and scenes. Mr. Merton continued, "We expect Lord Vargrave down soon. He is an ardent lover, I conclude; but public life chains him so much to London.
And one of the reasons for this is that in larger or more elaborate work, the statement, being more ample, is expected to be also more comprehensive and exhaustive; for the time required begets after-thoughts as to the real nature of the object viewed apart from the mood, which is the only excuse for the work; and so some of the artist's attention is drawn away to facts and aspects which it would have been the success of his work to have ignored.
The Old Professor looked pained. "I do not deny that some such after-thoughts troubled my mind occasionally for some years. But who can say anything of the 'might have been'? The instrument might have failed, after all; or the information gained have proved not worth the hearing; or " Here there was an unlooked-for interruption.
It spoiled all her after-thoughts on the subject, and so roused her brother's indignation with the fellow.
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