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"No. Sholto Douglas will provide against that." "Your opinion confirms the accounts I have had from other sources. It appears that Mr. Douglas is very attentive to my wife." "Very, indeed, Mr. Conolly. You must not think that I am afraid of anything anything " "Anything?" "Well Oh, you know what I mean. Anything wrong. At least, not exactly wrong, but " "Anything undomestic." "Yes.
Monica's undomestic life, and perhaps the association with those Chelsea people, had left results upon her mind. By way of mild discipline, he first of all suggested a closer attention to the affairs of the house. Would it not be well if she spent an hour a day in sewing or fancy work?
Now that he was absent from his wife for he had been thrice married this very undomestic poet discovered that he had a deep affection for her. He wrote her endearing letters, and reminded her of their happy hours. As she was a lady of high position and a friend of the Empress Livia, he no doubt hoped for her good offices. But her prudence surpassed her conjugal devotion.
All animals are domestic animals; only man is ever undomestic. All animals are tame animals; it is only we who are wild. And doubtless, also, while this queer energy is common to all human art, it is also generally characteristic of Christian art among the arts of the world. This is what people really mean when they say that Christianity is barbaric, and arose in ignorance.
All other animals are tame animals; following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type. All other animals are domestic animals; man alone is ever undomestic, either as a profligate or a monk. So that this first superficial reason for materialism is, if anything, a reason for its opposite; it is exactly where biology leaves off that all religion begins.
But here was the sound of music and decorous laughter, the clang of street-cars and the constant rattle of carriages: the restaurants were beginning to empty; there would be an hour or two of comparative quiet, and then another crowd would fill the streets, the restaurants, even the saloons; a crowd that rarely saw daylight mixing amiably with respectable but undomestic citizens that could afford to sleep late.
He was always good-tempered, even after these diabolical orgies on some unknown Brocken, and protested indistinctly that there was no harm, "'pon m' wor', ye know, ol' gur'! Geor' an' me half-doz' oyst'r c'gar botl' p'l ale str't home," and much more to the same effect. When did any married man ever take more than half a dozen oysters or take any undomestic pleasure for his own satisfaction?
Not many of those who were shareholders in the mine were also workers in it, and the workers met constantly at the house of a neighbour, who had turned his kitchen to an undomestic but profitable purpose by supplying drink to the miners at what seemed to the English and Welshmen ridiculously low prices.
But factory work, shop work, and all employments of that sort, are in their nature essentially undomestic, entailing the constant necessity of a boarding-house life, and of habits as different as possible from the quiet routine of home.
His business concerns had not prospered prodigiously, chiefly because his judgment, like his temper, had grown somewhat uncertain. His popularity in the Hudson's Bay country had been at some tension since he had shipped his wife away to England. Even the ordinary savage mind saw something unusual and undomestic in it, and the general hospitality declined a little.
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