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As he passed through Birmingham and Oxford, he once more hailed his old schoolfellow Hector, and his fellow collegian, Adams. It is delightful to see early intimacies thus enduring through all the accidents of life, local attachments unsevered by time, and the old age and childhood of man bound together by these natural charities.
Through the pleasant, busy days Desire forgot her almost. But never was she quite free from the pull of that unsevered bond. Until today there had been no actual word from the discarded past. Dr. Farr had not replied to Desire's brief announcement of her marriage. She had not expected that he would.
Could it be and the sudden thought stung him to the quick that she was deliberately and consciously degrading herself to what she knew was a lower plane of thought and life, that the bond of their older companionship might still remain unsevered? But, as her startled eyes caught sight of him, a welcoming light came into her relaxed face.
There is a great deal more in this line of the indestructibility of the soul; but nothing is said of the Vedantic idea that the soul has no real, separate existence, and that even this illusory existence, in human conditions, will terminate when the self shall be recognized to be, as it really is, an unsevered and inseparable part of the Supreme Soul.
The throng of eager speculators, the heavy-eyed and brutal drivers, the sprightlier representatives of Chivalry, the unhappy slaves, abandoning hope as they enter the mart, excepting in rare cases, where, grasping at straws, they pray in trembling tones that their ties of love may remain unsevered, the operations of the sale, the shrinking women, standing submissively under the vile jests of the reckless crowd, are portrayed with all the emphasis of truth.
Fresh, undiverted to the world without, Firm to the mark, not spent on other things; and finally, a satisfaction in the cheerful and serene performance of duty, the spirit of "toil unsevered from tranquillity," sharing in the world's work, yet keeping "free from dust and soil."
"Toil unsevered from tranquillity," "Labour, accomplish'd in repose" is his ideal of happiness and duty. Even the Duke of Wellington surely an unpromising subject for poetic eulogy is praised because he was a worker, Laborious, persevering, serious, firm. Nature, again, is called in to teach us the secret of successful labour.
The tough hide was half cut through, and its severed portion curled upwards and downwards like the upper and lower lips of an angry dog, whilst that which was unsevered stretched out slowly, slowly, till it grew quite thin. Then it snapped, so that the rope flew upwards and struck me across the face like the lash of a whip. Another instant and I heard a crackling, thudding sound.
Hear the peculiar sounding of the heart-strokes, when the lofty, well-poised structure is balancing itself, and quivering through every fibre and leaf and twig on the few unsevered tendons that have not yet felt the keen edge of the woodman's steel. See the first leaning it cannot recover.
Or Matthew Arnold's sonnet on Quiet Work: "One lesson, Nature, let me learn of thee, A lesson that on every wind is borne, A lesson of two duties kept at one Though the loud world proclaim their enmity: Of toil unsevered from tranquility, Of labor that in lasting fruit outgrows Far noisier schemes, accomplished in repose, Too great for haste, too high for rivalry..." We need to follow St.
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