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"We were rather late last night," Algitha confessed. "Pressure of ideas overpowering," added Fred. "When I was young, ideas would never have been tolerated in young people for a moment," said Mrs. Fullerton, "it would have been considered a mark of ill-breeding. You may think yourselves lucky to be born at this end of the century, instead of the other." "Indeed we do!" exclaimed Ernest.
The stupidity and blindness of each individual goes to build up the dead wall, the impassable obstacle, for some other spirit. The burden that we have cast upon the world has to be borne by our fellow man or woman, and perhaps is doomed to crush a human soul." "It seems to me that most people are engaged in that crushing industry," said Algitha with a shrug.
If you don't, you will come to grief." "Then you think it would be better to be 'resigned, and look after one's own soul?" "Heaven knows what would be better!" Algitha exclaimed. "But one thing is certain, you ought to look after your body, for the present at any rate."
Temperley tried to win a glance as she passed round, but her eyes were resolutely fixed on the floor. Algitha followed her sister's movements uneasily. She had noticed her absence during the last reel, and observed that Temperley also was not to be seen. She felt anxious. She knew Hadria's emotional susceptibility.
Algitha, who had been the recipient of that lady's tragic confidences, broke into a shout of laughter. "Well, Harold Wilkins says " This name was also greeted with a yell of derision. "I don't see why you girls always scoff so at Harold Wilkins," said Fred, slightly aggrieved, "he is generally thought a lot of by girls. All Mrs. Gordon's sisters adore him."
After a long silence, Algitha taking the poker in her hand and altering the position of some of the coals, asked what Hadria meant to do in the future; how she was going to "turn," if that was her intention. "Oh, I cannot even turn!" replied Hadria. "Necessity knows no law. The one thing I won't do, is to be virtuously resigned. And I won't 'make the best of it." Algitha laughed.
She knew Temperley's convincing faculty, and also Hadria's uneasy feeling that she had done wrong in allowing the practices to be resumed. Henriette had not failed to notice the signs of the times, and she annoyed Algitha beyond endurance by her obviously sisterly manner of addressing the family. She had taken to calling the boys by their first names.
"Hear, hear!" cried Algitha and Fred, and the table rocked enthusiastically. "But when the good things are gained for which the upholders have striven and perhaps given their lives, then there are no more greedy absorbers of the bounty than these same innumerable little throats." The table led the chorus of assent.
"The tides of a hundred years or so sweeping over one's audacious deed, soften the raw edges. Then it is tolerated in the landscape; indeed, it grows mossy and picturesque." Mrs. Temperley made this comparison. "And then think how useful it becomes to prove that a daring deed can be done, given only the necessary stuff in brain and heart." Mrs. Walker looked at Algitha in dismay.
Her eyes turned to the bare, forlorn hills that even the August sunshine could not conjure into sumptuousness, and there she saw the threatened reality. When at last Algitha's fine figure appeared at the further end of the path, Hadria hastened forward and took her sister's arm. "It was worse than I had feared," Algitha said, with a quiver in her voice.
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