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It is a grand thing to be able to tell it all to a sympathetic listener and the more so perhaps when he looks at it all from another standpoint. It steadies and sobers one. Those whom I love best are those who have least sympathy with my struggles. They talk about having faith, as if it could be done by an act of volition. They might as well tell me to have black hair instead of red.
A year ago he would have killed him he would have killed him begging on his knees, but taking a human life either makes a man callous or sobers him and the remorse which had followed the tragedy in the cabin was a sensation Bruce never wanted to experience again.
"Do you mean that this man will make trouble for you over this?" "Not as things stand. So long as nothing was done no arrests or anything like that he'll be glad to forget it, when he sobers up. I'll forget it, too, and maybe, miss, it wouldn't be any harm to anybody if you did a turn at forgetting, yourself."
"That's all he's good for." Then I heard the little Irish groom say, "I'll give you ten bob for the dog." And another voice says, "Ah, don't you do it; the dog's same as dead- -mebby he is dead." "Ten shillings!" says the Master, and his voice sobers a bit; "make it two pounds, and he's yours." But the pals rushed in again. "Don't you be a fool, Jerry," they say.
The pioneer sobers down; he finds that "the Ten Commandments will not budge"; he sees the need of law and order; he organizes a vigilance committee; he impanels a jury, even though the old Spanish law does not recognize a jury. The new land settles to its rest. The output of the gold mines shrinks into insignificance when compared with the cash value of crops of hay and potatoes.
An old man is a beautiful object in his own place, in the midst of a circle of young people, going down in various gradations to infancy, and all looking up to the patriarch with filial reverence, keeping him warm by their own burning youth; giving him the freshness of their thought and feeling, with such natural influx that it seems as if it grew within his heart; while on them he reacts with an influence that sobers, tempers, keeps them down.
"When I seen who it was I turned around to run. I was scared he'd shoot me. He hollered at me to stop, and I stopped. He come after me and caught me by the arm, and he laughs. I was scared silly silly, I tell you. He laughs some more, and then he sobers down to solid talk. "'Why, Charlie, says I, 'it can't be you. I'm so glad. I allowed the best thing was to jolly him along.
"Oh! you mean old Reddy. Was he drunk? No? That's odd." "He'd been away for the day drawing his pension," said Sam. "Of course," said Mr. Jinks. "I might have known it. That is his one sober day in the month. He sobers up to go to town, but he'll make up for lost time to-night. That twelve dollars will last just a week, and it all goes into the bar-room till.
But experience sobers a man, I never touch any thing now that hasn't been weighed in my judgment; and when Beriah Sellers puts his judgment on a thing, there it is." Whatever might have been Harry's intentions with regard to Laura, he saw more and more of her every day, until he got to be restless and nervous when he was not with her.
If we be right in holding that romance is gushing enthusiasm, then are we entitled to hold that many methodical and practical men have been, are, and ever will be, romantic. Time sobers their enthusiasm a little, no doubt, but does by no means abate it, unless the object on which it is expended be unworthy.
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