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Finally the last dallier had his say, and, after an exchange of cordial good nights, departed. Smith was at this time about due, and as he was noted for his promptitude, he was on hand to keep his date when the hour expired. "What's the lay now, Handy, old man?" inquired Smith, as he joined his manager. "Only this, and nothing more," replied the veteran melodramatically.
They are ancient history now, and nobody cares about them. But they serve to show the whole-hearted manner in which America was going in for golf, and the tremendous hold that it took on the people. We talk on this side of the "golfing fever" and of people "going mad" about the game. Believe me, the Britisher is a mere dallier in comparison with his American golfing cousin.
He fitted his instrument into its case and replaced it in his pocket. "Come," he said, "you mustn't call me hard names. I shall remind you of the man whose works you are making me read. You know what he says 'The aesthete is, after all, only a dallier. The world lives and progresses by reason of its utilitarians. This hill represents to me most of the things that are worth having in life."
You are a dallier, philanderer. You will end your days wearing your fashionable clothes. They may make you a professor here. You will talk learnedly. You will write a book. And when you die, people will say a great man has gone. Listen! You listen to me now with only half your ears, but listen once more. The time may come. The light may burn in your heart, the truth may fill your soul.
"If," continued the Doctor, now allowing his powerful voice to boom to its full compass "if I can succeed in bringing this coward, this unmanly dallier in a sentiment which the healthy mind of boyhood rejects as premature, to a sense of his detestable conduct; if I can score the lesson upon his flesh so that some faint notion of its force and purport may be conveyed to what has been supplied to him as a heart, then I shall not have lifted this hand in vain!
'Tis said that he is no drunkard, nor cudgeler, nor dallier with women, nor a liar, and that he is besides possessed of much property and very rich. Pity 'tis that one who is so ugly and stiff-necked should unite such parts."
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