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The upshot of the talk which began with tobacco was, that Milverton was prevailed upon to write an essay on a subject of universal interest to all civilized beings, an essay on Worry. He felt, indeed, that he. should be writing it at a disadvantage; for an essay on worry can be written with full effect only by a thoroughly worried man.
You are rather lengthy here about the cruelties to be found in history; but we are apt to forget these matters. Milverton. They always press upon my mind. Dunsford. And on mine. I do not like to read much of history for that very reason. I get so sick at heart about it all. Milverton. Ah, yes, history is a stupendous thing.
All middle-aged men are much flattered and pleased with the admiration of young girls. Milverton declared that the thing must be put a stop to; that "the idea of a young and beautiful girl throwing her affections away upon a faded widower like himself, was absurd."
An extreme notion about independence has made men much less generous in receiving. Dunsford. It is a falling off, then. There was another comment I had to make. I think, when you speak about the exorbitant demands of neglected merit, you should say more upon the neglect of the just demands of merit. Milverton.
I rather doubted at first, though, whether you were not going to assign too much power to education in the modification of temper. But, certainly, the mode of looking at the daily events of life, little or great, and the consequent habits of captiousness or magnanimity, are just the matters which the young especially imitate their elders in. Milverton.
Why I did not maintain my ground stoutly against Dunsford is, that I am always afraid of pushing moral conclusions too far. Dunsford. That seems safer ground. Milverton. Now to illustrate what I mean by a very similar instance. The mind is avid of new impressions.
The apple-tree may produce a somewhat different apple; but it will never producn an orange, neither will it yield a crab. So here we are again among our old friends. We should have good reason to complain had Dunsford, Ellesmere, or Milverton been absent; and here they are again just as before.
"You don't mind leaving all the people and things you have been used to all your life?" Anna tried to look grave. "I see so little of father, you know," she said, "and I'm sure I shall like the country better than London. I shall miss you, of course, dear Miss Milverton," she added quickly, bending forward to kiss her governess.
"For forms of government let fools contest, That which is WORST administered is best," that is, representative government. Milverton. I should not like either of you to fancy, from what I have been saying about representative government, that I do not see the dangers and the evils of it.
From a genial, wisely-developed man good things radiate; whereas you must allow, Milverton, that benevolent people are very apt to be one-sided and fussy, and not of the sweetest temper if others will not be good and happy in their way. Milverton. That is really not fair. Of course, acid, small-minded people carry their narrow notions and their acidity into their benevolence.
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