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An Englishman is self-assured, as being a citizen of the best-organized state in the world, and therefore as an Englishman always knows what he should do and knows that all he does as an Englishman is undoubtedly correct. An Italian is self-assured because he is excitable and easily forgets himself and other people.
He kept his promise, given in the following verse: And I, when to breathe is a labour, and joy Forgets me, and life is no longer the boy, On the labouring staff, and the tremorous knee, Will wander, bright river, to thee! Life is always "the boy" when one is beside the Tweed. Times change, and we change, for the worse. But the river changes little.
In the midst of strife and strenuous responsibility, this young missionary, representing the solacing new doctrine of symbolic brotherhood, neither shirks nor forgets the responsibilities of his instructions to lay Italy at his feet. Nor does he for a moment forget his wedded obligations. He is in love, nay, desperately in love.
"But he did not forget you, mother. Are you not wearing his beautiful gift to you which arrived this morning?" "No, he did not forget," replied the older woman, as her fingers strayed lovingly over the lace scarf resting so lightly on her snow-white hair. "My Philippe never forgets and that is why I worried just a little this morning when his usual birthday letter did not come.
But he cannot do himself justice, and the other sort of justice fails him. Then what does he do? He endeavors to forget, he forgets. But every day there comes to him an insolent letter, to provoke and exasperate his legitimate hatred, by mockeries and insults. Devil take me! my head is not the weakest but, at such a game, I should go mad."
That is the difficulty with the unprofessional story-teller: he yaws back and forth and can't keep in the wind; he drops his characters overboard when he hasn't any further use for them and drowns them; he forgets the coffee-pot and the frying-pan and all the other small essentials, and, if he carries a love affair, he mutters a fervent "Allah be praised" when he lands them, drenched with adventures, at the matrimonial dock at the end of the final chapter.
There is a humble writer in an attic up there who knows all about it, if you care to listen to him. The trouble is that he is so much interested in talking about life that he forgets to talk about himself, and we are too lazy to listen to any one who forgets to blow his own trumpet.
'Yes, said True; 'I don't like houses at all. I should like to be a gipsy! 'When we grows up, father, we'll come over the sea with you, won't we? And couldn't we go to the North Pole and skate? Miss Robsart was telling us yesterday about the poor little fat Eskims I forgets the name of them who're in the dark so much. I should like to see them and the whales.
John Bull is certainly very polite to the ladies, but when he is bent on enjoying himself at the table, he puts them to the door that is, he begs them to be so obliging as to go into another room and make tea for him, 'he will follow them immediately. Jonathan does not act like this; he loves the society of women, and will not be deprived of it; he is the most gallant man upon earth, and if he sometimes forgets his gallantry, it is because he has forgotten himself; but this does not often happen.
'I don't care about playing catch, it does not amuse me, answered the cat, who was as cross as ever; for no cat, even to this day, ever forgets an injury done to him. 'Well, then, lend me the ball for a little, and I will play by myself, replied the lion, stretching out a paw as he spoke. 'You can't play in the rain, and if you did, you would only lose it in the bushes, said the cat.
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