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"A second-rate talent perhaps," Ernest admitted, "but not a really big one." "I should exactly reverse that statement," said Hadria. "The greater the power and the finer its quality, the greater the inharmony between the nature and the conditions; therefore the more powerful the leverage against it. A small comfortable talent might hold its own, where a larger one would succumb.
Ah, Hadria, why will you not listen to me?" He bent forward, covering his face with his hands in deep dejection. His hope had begun to wane. "You know what I think," said Hadria. "You know how I should act if I married. Surely that ought to cure you of all ." He seized her hand. "No, no, nothing that you may think could cure me of the hope of making you my wife.
"It is so difficult to know which is the least," said Valeria. "I don't believe there is a 'least. They are both unbearable. It is a question which best fits one's temperament, which leads soonest to resignation." "Oh, Hadria, you would never achieve resignation!" cried Valeria. "Oh, some day, perhaps!" Valeria shook her head. She had no belief in Hadria's powers in that direction.
If you go seeking mole-hills and worms, and put nose to ground on the scent for carrion, you will find them all, with the range of snow-capped Alps in full view, and the infinite of blue above your blind head!" Hadria, in justice, could not refuse to acknowledge that Professor Theobald was open-minded. "True," he said, "it is dangerous to seek for evil, unless you naturally love it, and then "
"It is strange," said Lady Engleton, in speaking of him afterwards to Hadria, "it is strange that his cleverness does not come to the rescue; but so far from that, I think it leads him a wild dance over boggy ground, like some will-o'-the-wisp, but for whose freakish allurements the good man might have trodden a quiet and inoffensive way."
You heard Algitha speak very plainly on the matter. So you see, we are entirely unsuitable as wives, except to the impossible men who might share our rebellion. Please let us go back to the hall. They are just beginning to dance another reel." "I cannot let you go back. Oh, Hadria, you can't be so unjust as to force me to break off in this state of uncertainty.
Fullerton was pleased with the marriage, not merely because Hubert's father, Judge Temperley, could secure for his son a prosperous career, but because she was so thankful to see a strange, unaccountable girl like Hadria settling quietly down, with a couple of children to keep her out of mischief. That was what it had come to! Perhaps they calculated a little too surely.
The visit was explained after a characteristic fashion. Miss Du Prel realized that over two years had passed since she had seen Hadria, and moreover she had been seized with an overwhelming longing for a sight of country fields and a whiff of country air, so she had put a few things together in a handbag, which she had left at Craddock station by accident, and come down.
Hadria thought that perhaps she was the "imbecile"; it was a possibility to be counted with, but she dared not say so to the irate Jouffroy. He was particularly angry, because the audience had confirmed his own fear that only very slowly would the quality of the music be recognized by even the more cultivated public.
"Hubert would not so misunderstand you the dear fellow is full of delicacy and I should dearly love to hear him play to your accompaniment; he used to enjoy those practices so much. Would you think him intrusive if he brought his 'cello some afternoon?" Hadria, not without an uneasy qualm, agreed to the suggestion, though by no means cordially.
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