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Then the procession of events would repeat itself till he was utterly worn out and the brain took up its everlasting consideration of Maisie and might-have-beens. At the end of everything Mr. Beeton came to his room and volunteered to take him out. 'Not marketing this time, but we'll go into the Parks if you like. 'Be damned if I do, quoth Dick. 'Keep to the streets and walk up and down.
I know several other trades and the argot that goes with them; and whenever a person tries to talk the talk peculiar to any of them without having learned it at its source I can trap him always before he gets far on his road. I would put aside the guesses and surmises, and perhapses, and might-have-beens, and could-have-beens, and must-have-beens, and,
Richards glanced listlessly at the superscription and the post-mark unfamiliar, both and tossed the letter on the table and resumed his might-have-beens and his hopeless dull miseries where he had left them off.
He might, of course, have beaten a retreat and obviated many things; but life is full of might-have-beens, and retreat never presents itself agreeably to a strong man. His impulse was to face the difficulty, and he acted on the impulse. Lillian had risen slowly; and as he neared her she held out her hand. "Jack!" she exclaimed, softly. "How sweet of you to remember!"
"No, I'm not," I concluded, after honest, soul-searching reflection. "No, I'm glad, Kate. But I think we were crazy to attempt it, as Sergeant Baker said. Think of all the might-have-beens." "Nothing else will happen," said Kate. "I feel in my bones that our troubles are over." Kate's bones proved true prophets. Nevertheless, that day was a weary one. There was no scenery.
But if thy fortunes need be bound with hers and all thine honors for which thou art so meet, and with which thy Venice would fain endow thee, must be surrendered for her sake, 'twere pity that this marriage which thy Father willed, went not forward." "Sweet Mother the 'might-have-beens' make faincants of men. It is not love but duty that calleth me. There is no choice.
Possibly the Protestant Reformation was a misfortune, and Erasmus saw the truth more clearly than Luther. I cannot go into might-have-beens. We have to deal with facts. A conspiracy of silence is impossible about matters which have been vehemently discussed for centuries.
This testimony is so strong, so direct, so authoritative; and so uncheapened, unwatered by guesses, and surmises, and maybe-so's, and might-have-beens, and could-have-beens, and must-have-beens, and the rest of that ton of plaster of Paris out of which the biographers have built the colossal brontosaur which goes by the Stratford actor's name, that it quite convinces me that the man who wrote Shakespeare's Works knew all about law and lawyers.
His head was bowed on his hands, his elbows on his knees. Then the exhorter began again. Full of scriptural texts charged with holy fire, abounding in lurid thoughts of burning lakes, of endless torment; gifted with the fluency that sometimes passes for logic and makes for convincement, he dwelt on the horrors and the might-have-beens.
The fame of our last great musician survived him for quite a long time, as things go. That the re-issue of his works was not due alone to the energy of his widow is clear, for she died in 1706. It is indeed mournful to contemplate the havoc disease and death play with the might-have-beens of men and of causes.
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