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Miss Milverton gave a little shake of the head, as she returned the kiss; perhaps she did not believe in being very much missed. "You are going to new scenes and new people," she said, "and at your age, Anna, it is easier to forget than to remember. I should like to think, though, that some of our talks and lessons during the last seven years might stay in your mind."
What is it to be a King, Sheik, Tetrarch, or Emperor, over a bit of a little bit? Macbeth's speech, "we'd jump the life to come," is a thing a man with modern lights, however madly ambitious, would hardly utter. Dunsford. Religious lights, Milverton. Milverton. Of course not, if he had them; but I meant scientific lights.
I mean more direct comfort; for I agree with what Ellesmere says about society. Ellesmere. In comparing men and books, one must always remember this important distinction that one can put the books down at any time. As Macaulay says, "Plato is never sullen. Cervantes is never petulant. Demosthenes never comes unseasonably. Dante never stays too long." Milverton.
Now, in the present case, no man will really suppose it is a wise and just conformity that I am inveighing against. Ellesmere. I am not sure of that. If everybody is to have independent thought, would there not be a fearful instability and want of compactness? Another thing, too conformity often saves so much time and trouble. Milverton. Yes; it has its uses.
Dunsford. We must, I am afraid, break off our pleasant employment of projecting public improvements, unless we mean to be dinnerless. Ellesmere. A frequent fate of great projectors, I fear. Milverton. Now then, homewards. My readers will, perhaps, agree with me in being sorry to find that we are coming to the end of our present series.
In fine, then, I did not attempt to dissuade Milverton from his purpose of postponing our readings: and we agreed that there should only be one more for the present. I wished it to be at our favourite place on the lawn, which had become endeared to me as the spot of many of our friendly councils.
Come, Rollo, let us leave these men of sentiment. Oh, you will not go, as your master does not move. Look how he wags his tail, and almost says, "I should clearly like to have a hunt after the water-rat we saw in the pond the other day, but master is talking philosophy, and requires an intelligent audience." These dogs are dear creatures, it must be owned. Come, Milverton, let us have a walk.
Yes, you never thought to see me here again, but it was that night which taught me how I could meet you face to face, and alone. Well, Charles Milverton, what have you to say?" "Don't imagine that you can bully me," said he, rising to his feet. "I have only to raise my voice, and I could call my servants and have you arrested. But I will make allowance for your natural anger.
I especially disagree with what Milverton has said about love. He leaves much too little power to the will. Milverton. I daresay I may have done so. These are very deep matters, and any one view about them does not exhaust them. I remember C once saying to me that a man never utters anything without error. He may even think of it rightly; but he cannot bring it out rightly.
I should like the Young England party better myself if I were quite sure there was no connection between them and a clan of sour, pity-mongering people, who wash one away with eternal talk about the contrast between riches and poverty; with whom a poor man is always virtuous; and who would, if they could, make him as envious and as discontented as possible. Milverton.
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