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Yes, there is one period in love when all men are poets, however the penury of their language may belie the luxuriance of their fancies. What would become of me if you ceased to love me?" "Or of me, if you could cease to love?" "And somehow it seems to me this evening as if my heart drew nearer to you, nearer as if for shelter."
Kill that whence spring the crude fancies and wild day-dreams of the young, and you will never lead them beyond dull facts dull because their relations to each other, and the one life that works in them all, must remain undiscovered. Whoever would have his children avoid this arid region will do well to allow no teacher to approach them not even of mathematics who has no imagination.
"Listen to me," thundered Leland, his heavier voice drowning the girl's words. "If your father does a thing which your untrained, woman's brain cannot rightly understand are you the one to judge and condemn him? Because a lying Shandon has cast his cursed spell over your romantic fancies are you to leap to these ridiculous conclusions? Am I the man to do a dishonourable thing?
At certain hours he would study his country's social, political needs; at others he would help in his father's farm management; at others he would study some exact science. But when the measured hours of his day were over, and before he lit his student's lamp, for a while he turned his fancies loose, and they ran all too surely to play about Susannah's charms, about the circumstances of her life.
"I have never pretended to have as much sense as a man, and I hope nobody has ever accused me of anything so unwomanly but there are some things you can't teach your wife, with all your experience." Mr. Burwell stroked the plump hand on his arm and smiled in returning self-esteem. "And you are quite sure he fancies Sally?" he inquired. "I know it," replied his wife decisively.
'No, no; John ain't selfish! Never say that! It's only his fancies, Sidney. 'Well, there's one trouble you'd better get rid of, at all events. Let Clara go to Mrs. Tubbs. You'll never have any peace till she does, I can see that. Why shouldn't she go, after all? She's seventeen; if she can't respect herself now, she never will, and there's no help for it. Tell John to let her go.
Company is not play, but many times bard work. To play, is for a man to do what he pleases, or to do nothing, to go about soothing his particular fancies. I have lived to a time of life to have outlived the good hours, the nine-o'clock suppers, with a bright hour or two to clear up in afterwards.
If we sought to tell others, what the wiser were they? Suffice it, that here at the summit you and I stand. Does any balloonist, does the outlooking man in the moon, take a broader view of space? Much thus, one fancies, looks the universe from Milton's celestial battlements. A boundless watery Kentucky. Here Daniel Boone would have dwelt content.
As might be expected, Mrs. Ramshorn was indignant. What right had he to desecrate a pulpit of the Church of England by misusing it for the publication of his foolish fancies about creatures that had not reason! Of course nobody would think of being cruel to them, poor things! But there was that silly man talking about them as if they were better Christians than any of them!
Many a faithful dog has been scolded aye, and maybe struck, by his maister when he had quicker ears than the foolish man, and was giving warning of danger. "Ye think me, my lord, a silly and cankered auld haveril, and that my head is full of prejudices and fancies. Would to God that I were wrong.
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