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Nothing strikes one more, unless, perhaps, the obverse, when we see some trifling pebble-cast ripple into eternity, some fateful second prolific as the fly aphis. And so I find it all again exampled in these old accounts. The books that mean most for Narcissus to-day could be carried in the hand without a strap, and could probably be bought for a sovereign.
Thus Conscience, Prudence, Wisdom, Policy, Safety First all the deadly virtues called her. Did she heed? As the sea's self should heed a pebble-cast. On a June evening, when Petticoat was called to Iva Payne's, Porgie came. Bowed in by a thin red line of footmen, he found Warble in the moon-parlor.
The hysterical bitterness with which certain sections of modern people of taste are constantly girding at the bourgeois which, indeed, as Omar Khayyám says, heeds 'as the sea's self should heed a pebble-cast' is one of the most melancholy of recent literary phenomena. It was not so the great masters treated the common man, nor any full-blooded age.
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