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I would put aside the guesses, and surmises, and perhapses, and might-have-beens, and could-have beens, and must-have-beens, and we-are justified-in-presumings, and the rest of those vague spectres and shadows and indefinitenesses, and stand or fall, win or lose, by the verdict rendered by the jury upon that single question.
The facts, indeed, which I had stated, there could be no doubt of; but I might have viewed them through a prejudiced and angry medium. I might have been not quite logical in my deductions from them I might.... In short, between "perhapses" and "mights" I fell a very deep, real, damnable fall; and consented to emasculate my poems, and become a flunkey and a dastard.
No indeed, indeed, I am grateful for 'The Seraphim, and not exacting for the 'Drama, and all the more because of a secret obstinate persuasion that the 'Drama' will have a majority of friends in the end, and perhaps deserve to have them. Nay, why should I throw perhapses over my own impressions, and be insincere to you who have honoured me by being sincere?
So this would be the end; the end of foolish dreams and weak hopes, which he had never put into words even to himself, which had never properly existed, and yet had been there, nevertheless, a mass of gloriously vague perhapses. The end was at hand an end before there had been any beginning. "... the annoyance of the perpetual interruptions," went on the voice on the other side.
Upjohn, the female lay-head of the Presbyterians, who was a walking Decalogue, her every sentence being a law beginning with Thou shalt not, admitted practically, if not theoretically, that without risk of damnation it was possible to swerve occasionally from a too rigid Yea and Nay. Perhaps, ah, well, there is no use in exhausting the perhapses. The fact remained.
But if I can get a single room there, I'd rather have it, wouldn't you?" "Well, perhaps," answered the other doubtfully. "No perhapses about it, my friend," thought Betty, turning off to her own quarters. Rooms and roommates the air was full of them! And to-morrow was the day that the Belden House matron had appointed for settling all such matters.
Charity could not quite disbelieve this, nor quite believe. She had spent the evening debating married love and honeymoons that wax and wane and wax again, and a wife's duty and her rights and might-have-beens, perhapses, and if-only's. Charity had put on her jewels, which had not been taken out of the safe for years, but he had not arrived.
Instead of fears, doubt, perhapses, we have a living Christ and His rock-word. And in Him is all joy, and in Him is the cleansing from all sin. And this threefold radiance, into which the one pure light may be analysed, falls upon us.
This morning I took the train to the city. I was determined to know the worst once for all. The time had come when I must. My doctor at home had put me off with vague hopes and perhapses. So I went to a noted physician in the city. I told him I wanted the whole truth I made him tell it. Stripped of all softening verbiage it is this: I have perhaps eight months or a year to live no more!
He wanted to influence the average Englishman, and he knew perfectly well there is nothing the average Englishman dislikes so much as guarded and elaborately conditioned statements. The immense popularity and influence of Macaulay had been due to his hatred of half-lights, of "perhapses"; and little as Mr Arnold liked Macaulay's fiddle, he was wise enough to borrow his rosin, albeit in disguise.
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