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The moderate drinker who sits at table sipping his wine in the sight of one he knows to be a potential dipsomaniac is at best an unloving fool. But mere abstinence and the doing of barren toilsome unrewarding things for the sake of the toil, is a perversion of one's impulses. There is neither honour nor virtue nor good in that. I do not believe in negative virtues.
Of course Cope was not an undergraduate a species upon which many of the Churchtonians languidly refused to bestow their regard. "They come, and they go," said these prosperous and comfortable burghers; "and, after all, they're more or less alike, and more or less unrewarding." Besides, the Bigger Town, with all its rich resources and all its varied opportunities, lay but an hour away.
Not often have we seen a novelist pushing his self-denial beyond reason, rejecting the easy way for the difficult without good cause. But in order to make sure of breaking a sound rule at the right point, and not before to take advantage of laxity when strictness becomes unrewarding, and only then it is as well to work both ways, from the easy extreme to the difficult and back again.
He was feeling foolish and fascinated dressing was evidently a religion with the most solemn rites in the world. The gravity and concentration of every one astounded him the firm vendeuse refusing to allow her cliente any freedom of choice. The pathetic cliente pining in vain for forbidden fruit the hopelessly ugly and unrewarding, who alone were permitted to follow their fancies.
"All families are shipwrecked," absently replied Meshach, "who cast their lot upon an unrewarding land, and growing poorer, darker, down, from generation to generation, can never leave it, and, at last, can never desire to go." "Marster, dar is one got to go some ob dese days. It's me pore ole Samson!" "Ha! has some one set you on to demand your wages?" "No, marster, I am old.
The fact that he wished to make my acquaintance shows, no doubt, that I have sailed into his ken, and that he wishes to add me to his collection. I felt myself singularly unrewarding. I am not a talker at the best of times, and to feel that I am expected to be witty and suggestive is the last straw. Lord Wilburton discoursed fluently and agreeably.
It was a much more laborious and unrewarding occupation than he had intended, and he was sometimes weary of his self-imposed task. He wrote at this period: No politician ever sought for Places with half the zeal that I do. Friend and Foe alike have to give Place to Yours truly, H. W. L. Again he says:
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