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At another time, and under other circumstances, he might have smiled at the idle parade and useless pomp which he had this day witnessed, or moralised on that weakness of human nature which seemed to consider the inconvenient appendages of a throne as the great end for which power was to be coveted; but at the present moment he only saw a kind and, as he believed, estimable individual disquieted and distressed.
It was the third example of my great men coming to grief through their tailor; anyhow, there lay a contributory cause. One might have moralised to Herschel on the subject of genius and clothes; I did better, I sympathised. 'Sir John, who was living near Windsor, had been up in London, and was to return home for dinner.
He could not pay me at the appointed time, whereupon I set him down as an ungrateful brute, and moralised like Timon. There was at that time living in London a lady whom I must call Mrs. A. She was the widow of a professor at Cambridge who had died young, and she might have been about five-and-thirty or forty years old. My cousin, who had known her husband, introduced me to her.
There was no nonsense about Dr. Holmes. His poems were mainly "occasional" verses for friendly meetings; or humorous, like the celebrated "One Horse Shay." Of his serious verses, the "Nautilus" is probably too familiar to need quotation; a noble fancy is nobly and tunefully "moralised." Pleasing, cultivated, and so forth, are adjectives not dear to poets.
"Then no wonder such a creature as that," she lightly moralised, "won't suit you!" He bent upon her, for all the weight of his question, his smoothest stare. "You hold she certainly won't suit me?" "Why, what can I tell about it? Haven't you by this time found out?" "No, but I think I'm finding." With which he began again to explore. Miss Rasch immensely wondered.
Those days had passed. I told myself that I was as old as the sphinx we had moralised over in Egypt. We lunched, then, at the Palm Tree House and rode back in the cool of the afternoon to Mogador. We were alone, as we knew the path across the tongue of desert, and had no need of a guide and the rabble of sore-eyed urchins who, like their attendant flies, infest the tourist on his journeyings.
Was I then in a sick-chamber? was that personification of beauty doomed? I looked round, and pronounced it incredible. I gazed upon the recumbent figure before me, so still, so living, and yet so death-like and moralised upon the utter deception of appearances. At length she awoke, apparently much reanimated. "My dear Ralph," said she, "why are you not in mourning?"
Then a third time, and then discovered that, up to a certain point, his will was free to act, but that beyond that point, the agony was so intense that the muscles of the hand and arm refused to act responsive to the will. In other circumstances he might have moralised on this curious fact. As it was he only moaned aloud.
There's a link missing." Then as if after all she might take him too seriously, "Of course it's I," he more gently moralised, "who have lost the link in my sleep. I've slept half the century I'm Rip Van Winkle." He went back after a moment to her question. "He's not at any rate like his mother." She turned it over. "Perhaps you wouldn't think so much of her now." "Perhaps not.
Their fortifications, their aqueducts, their theatres, their fountains, all their public works, bear the grave, solid, and majestic character of their language; while our modern labours, like our modern tongues, seem but constructed out of their fragments. Having thus moralised, he remembered that he was hungry, and pursued his walk to a small public-house, at which he proposed to get some refreshment.
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