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Dunsford, very shy with women, had never succeeded in getting into conversation with her; and he urged Philip to help him. "All I want is a lead," he said, "and then I can manage for myself." Philip, to please him, made one or two remarks, but she answered with monosyllables. She had taken their measure. They were boys, and she surmised they were students. She had no use for them.
Dunsford. We must, I am afraid, break off our pleasant employment of projecting public improvements, unless we mean to be dinnerless. Ellesmere. A frequent fate of great projectors, I fear. Milverton. Now then, homewards. My readers will, perhaps, agree with me in being sorry to find that we are coming to the end of our present series.
The first thing for Government to do, Dunsford, in London, or any other great town, is to secure open spaces in it and about it. Trafalgar Square may be dotted with hideous absurdities, but it is an open space. They may collect together there specimens of every variety of meanness and bad taste; but they cannot prevent its being a better thing than if it were covered with houses.
Don't you observe, Dunsford, that when Ellesmere wants to attack us, and does not exactly see how, he mutters to himself sarcastically, sneering himself up, as it were, to the attack. Ellesmere. You and Dunsford are both wild for music, from barrel- organs upwards. Milverton. I confess to liking the humblest attempts at melody. Dunsford.
Well, I wonder whether love for I imagine you mean love was ever so described before, "that other thing!" 'Elles. When the world was younger, perhaps there was more of this friendship. David and Jonathan! How does their friendship begin? I know it is very beautiful; but I have forgotten the words. Dunsford will tell us. 'Dunsford. "And Saul said to him, Whose son art thou, thou young man?
The upshot of it all seems to me to be, that, as Guizot says of civilisation, every impulse has room; so in the affections, every inducement and counter-inducement has its influence; and the result is not a simple one, which can be spoken of as if it were alike on all occasions and with all men. Dunsford. I am still unanswered, I think, Milverton.
Dunsford. What a low view you do take of things sometimes, Ellesmere! Milverton. I should not care how low it was, but it is not fair at least, it does not contain the whole matter. In the very case he has put, there was a subtle embarrassment between B and So-and-so.
Familiarity with the things around us, obscuring knowledge? Milverton. I would rather not explain. Each of you make your own fable of it. Dunsford. Well, if ever I make a fable, it shall be one of the old- fashioned sort, with animals for the speakers, and a good easy moral. Ellesmere. Not a thing requiring the notes of seven German metaphysicians.
Dunsford. Nobody can accuse you of that fault, Ellesmere: I never heard you dilate much upon anything that interested you, though I have known you have some pet subject, and to be working at it for months. But this comes of your coldness of nature. Ellesmere. Well, it might bear a more favourable construction. But to go back to the essay.
Men of great genius are often such a sensitive race, so apt to be miserable in many other than pecuniary ways and want of public estimation, that I am not sure that distress and neglect do not take their minds off worse discomforts. It is a kind of grievance, too, that they like to have. Dunsford. Really, Ellesmere, that is a most unfeeling speech. Milverton.
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