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Yet not one of the family had ever cared for it on the ground of its old-fashionedness; its preservation was owing merely to the fact that their gardener was blessed with a wholesome stupidity rendering him incapable of unlearning what his father, who had been gardener there before him, had had marvellous difficulty in teaching him.
"Doesn't the fact that it's the last constitute a difference?" "The last my last visit to you?" "Oh, metaphorically, I mean there's a break in the continuity." Decidedly, she was pressing too hard: unlearning his arts already! "I don't recognize it," he said. "Unless you make me " he added, with a note that slightly stirred her attitude of languid attention. She turned to him with grave eyes.
Welby shrugged his shoulders. "Life consists in the alternate process of learning and unlearning; but it is often wiser to unlearn than to learn. For the rest, as I have ceased to be a critic, I care little whether I was wrong or right when I played that part. I think I am right now as a placeman. Let the world go its own way, provided the world lets you live upon it.
But he was always that was really the upshot cultivating thanklessly the considerate and the delicate: it was a long lesson, this unlearning, with people of English race, all the little superstitions that accompany friendship. Mrs.
But when an old comrade and tried friend needs help and comes to them with his modest requirements, ah, then there is silence and searchings of heart, unlearning of tenets and flat renunciation of doctrines.
We, like the presumptuous bunglers that we are, bind the sticks into faggots, and then whine because our strength gives out. The lesson of unlearning what we have practiced so long is not easy, but it may be acquired. In your character as day laborer, sift carefully each morning what belongs to to-day from that which may come to-morrow. Be rigid with yourself in this adjustment.
But he was always that was really the upshot cultivating thanklessly the considerate and the delicate: it was a long lesson, this unlearning, with people of English race, all the little superstitions that accompany friendship. Mrs.
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