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It was not now a very guarded, if once a very studied, loveliness; not quite neglect, but a forgottenness to which it took kindly, had fallen upon it; the drives seemed largely left to take care of themselves, the walks were such as the frequenters chose to make over the grass or through the woods; the buildings the aviary, the conservatory, the dairy, the stables which formed part of the old pleasance, stood about, as if in an absent-minded indifference to their various roles.
And, on the other hand, as though to strike a balance between fame and forgottenness, there are some widely popular noëls as "C'est le bon lever" of which the authorship absolutely is unknown; while there are still others as the charming "Wild Nightingale" which belong to no one author, but have been built up by unknown farm-house poets who have added fresh verses and so have passed on the amended song.
Let it fail in the work set it to do and it is cast aside into forgottenness or broken up as waste. He had no liking, he had even a loathing, for the part allotted to him, and he played it unwillingly; left to himself, he would not have played it at all.
"That's the Cossars!" The eyes of the released prisoner followed the finger's direction and saw "My Gawd!" he cried, for the first time really overcome with amazement. The paper dropped into final forgottenness between his feet.
Some neglected pleasances are so far gone that you cannot wish to live in them, but the forgottenness of the Villa d'Este hospitably allured me to instant and permanent occupation, so that when I heard it could now be bought, casino and all, for thirty thousand dollars, nothing but the want of the money kept me from making the purchase.
Who remembers even such great editors as Greeley or James Gordon Bennett or Godkin or Dana? What malignant magic, what black art, is it that reduces us all to one level of forgottenness when we are gone, and even before we are gone? Have those high souls left their inspiration here, for common men to breathe the breath of finer and nobler life from?
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