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Updated: May 10, 2025
It is akin to the crocodile lament of the publisher that good modern literature is neglected by the public, or the impressionist's lament about the great unpaid greatness of the great unknown the exclusively literary view of literary rewards. Literature must be governed by over-mastering impulse or directed at profit.
Stanton viewed her emotion with grim satisfaction. He had found the vulnerable heel of Achilles. "He wasn't ... Symonds, don't say it...." Nancy pleaded. "Don't say he was " Her hands were raised, as if to push some over-mastering horror from her. "No, no, ma'am; he was only unconscious from a blow on his head." Symonds, shocked by her look of agony, spoke with unusual rapidity.
But I am inclined to think of this act as only a slip, a slight aberration, on the part of the falcon, so universal is the sense of relationship among the kinds that have the rapacious habit; or, at the worst, it was merely an isolated act of deviltry and daring of the sharp-winged pirate of the sky, a sudden assertion of over-mastering energy and power, and a very slight offence compared with that of the crow when he carries off and devours his callow little cousins of the rookery.
"You put too serious an estimate upon love," he said. "You expect it to be the grand, over-mastering passion we read about. That was all well enough for the age of poetry, but this is the age of prose. You can go to that man and tell him that " "That I have a Nineteenth century love for Mr. Sawyer," she interrupted. "Well, yes." "And he would laugh at me." "Laugh at you," he frowned.
She did more indeed. Drawn by some over-mastering impulse she drew near to Godfrey and kissed him gently on the forehead, then glided back again frightened and ashamed at her own act. Now he woke up; she felt his dark eyes looking at her. Then he spoke in a slow, puzzled voice, saying: "I have had such a funny dream. I dreamed that a spirit came and kissed me.
Her first words are cold, and we are shocked by her lack of tenderness. Why should she ignore her father's need for indulgence, and be unwilling to give him what he so obviously craved? We see in the old king "the over-mastering desire of being beloved, selfish, and yet characteristic of the selfishness of a loving and kindly nature alone."
Yielding to his own over-mastering emotion, and reckless of consequences, he caught her two hands lightly in his own. "And how dare YOU!" he said earnestly, "Little girl, how dare YOU so hurt yourself!"
She had indeed a heart to bestow, and without vain boasting it was a heart worth the winning; she held herself in sufficient esteem to set a price on the treasure. But was it jewel enough to prompt a man to uproot every tradition of his moral world for its possession? Sadly she shook her head. No, Martin would never be lost in a mood of such over-mastering love as this for her.
Westminster Abbey was among her favorite haunts; its ancient aisles, its storied windows, its thousand memories of a past which antedated by so many centuries the civilization of her native land, appealed deeply to the ardent imagination of the impassioned girl. Here was a world of which she had read and dreamed, but whose over-mastering, living influence was now for the first time felt.
It seemed to her suddenly that she understood more clearly than hitherto in what lay the intense, the over-mastering and hypnotic attraction exercised already by the Desert over her nature. In the Desert there must be, there was she felt it not only light to warm the body, but light to illuminate the dark places of the soul. An almost fatalistic idea possessed her.
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