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Eunice looked at him with laughing eyes, and shook her finger with a mock threat. "Shelldrake," continued Mr. Billings, without noticing this by-play, "was a man of more pretence than real cultivation, as I afterwards discovered.
"'Hollins, said Shelldrake, 'Elviry's a good wife and a sensible woman, and I won't allow you to turn up your nose at her. "'I am not surprised, he answered, 'that you should fail to stand the test. I didn't expect it. "'Let me try it on you! cried Shelldrake. 'You, now, have some intellect, I don't deny that, but not so much, by a long shot, as you think you have.
However, the true Reformer must expect to be misunderstood and misrepresented by meaner minds. That love which I bear to all creatures teaches me to forgive you. Without such love, all plans of progress must fail. Is it not so, Abel? "Shelldrake could only ejaculate the words, 'Pity! 'Forgive! in his most contemptuous tone; while Mrs.
"I wish I could recollect some of the speeches made on that occasion. His complexion, nevertheless, was more clammy and whey-like than ever. "'Yes, said he, 'I also am an Arcadian! This false dual existence which I have been leading will soon be merged in the unity of Nature. Our lives must conform to her sacred law. "Shelldrake, however, turning to his wife, said,
"'The effect of beer, said he, 'depends, I think, on the commixture of the nourishing principle of the grain with the cooling properties of the water. Perhaps, hereafter, a liquid food of the same character may be invented, which shall save us from mastication and all the diseases of the teeth. "Hollins and Shelldrake, at his invitation, divided a bottle between them, and he took a second.
Abel scarcely spoke, which the others attributed to a natural feeling of shame, after his display of the previous evening. Hollins and Shelldrake discussed Temperance, with a special view to his edification, and Miss Ringtop favored us with several quotations about 'the maddening bowl, but he paid no attention to them. Eunice was pale and thoughtful.
Shelldrake and Perkins undertook the work, and we did not think it necessary to interfere with them. Half an hour afterwards, when the full moon had risen, we took our chairs upon the sloop, to enjoy the calm, silver night, the soft sea-air, and our summer's residence in anticipatory talk. What Abel said in regard to dietetic reform is true; but that alone will not regenerate the race.
Our road, which had been approaching the Sound, now skirted the head of a deep, irregular inlet, beyond which extended a beautiful promontory, thickly studded with cedars, and with scattering groups of elm, oak, and maple trees. Towards the end of the promontory stood a house, with white walls shining against the blue line of the Sound. "'There is Arcadia, at last! exclaimed Mr. Shelldrake.
I derive no intellectual benefit from my intercourse with you, but your house is convenient to me. I'm under no obligations for your hospitality, however, because my company is an advantage to you. Indeed, if I were treated according to my deserts, you couldn't do enough for me. "Mrs. Shelldrake was up in arms. "'Indeed, she exclaimed, 'I think you get as good as you deserve, and more too.
Shelldrake and Perkins undertook the work, and we did not think it necessary to interfere with them. Half an hour afterwards, when the full moon had risen, we took our chairs upon the stoop, to enjoy the calm, silver night, the soft sea-air, and our summer's residence in anticipatory talk. What Abel said in regard to dietetic reform is true; but that alone will not regenerate the race.
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