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This was not Lettice's way of looking at it. The hero of her story was an urn in the hands of a divine artist, and a sterner stress was necessary for the consummate work. But he, Alan, was no hero. Horace' verse was nearer the mark with him. Amphoræ coepit Institui; currente rota cur urceus exit? As water to wine were all the uses of his life henceforth, compared with that which might have been.
Nature, it would seem, did not make Giles a dwarf out of malice prepense; she constructed a head and torso with her usual care; but just then her attention was distracted, and she left the rest to chance; the result was a human wedge, an inverted cone. He might justly have taken her to task in the terms of Horace, "Amphora coepit Institui; currente rota cur urceus exit?"
Accordingly, all it need take the trouble to do was to reverse the ideas of sacred things already engraved on its surface, and behold, a kingdom of hell with all the merit and none of the difficulty of originality! Adeo ut tuto affirmari liceat conventus a diabolo certo institui.
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