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He is not yet convicted: he is not even on his trial; how then can we venture to say he is guilty? Now think what scores of men and women walk the world in a like predicament; and what false coin passes current! Pinchbeck strives to pass off his history as sound coin. He knows it is only base metal, washed over with a thin varnish of learning.
Shake the mixture well together and place the flask in a gentle heat till the seed-lac appears to be dissolved, the shaking being in the meantime repeated as often as may be convenient; then pour off all the clear and strain the remainder through a coarse cloth. The varnish so prepared must be kept for use in a well-corked glass vessel.
The varnish brings out dark spots in the picture; the flowers have a faded meretricious look, not the bloom and dew of the garden; no sophistry can overcome the inherent ugliness of the thing an honest man's name dishonoured; two culprits planning a future life, to be spent in hiding from the more respectable portion of their species; two outcasts, trying to make believe that the wildernesses beyond Eden are fairer than that paradise itself.
On parade days each company turned out with its machine brought to a high state of polish by varnish, and with the members resplendent in uniform, carrying pole-axes and banners. If the rivalries at the fire could only be ended in a general free fight, everybody was the better satisfied.
"A negro or a Japanese may easily take a university degree or become a lawyer; the sort of varnish he thus acquires is, however, quite superficial, and has no influence on his mental constitution.... What no education can give him because they are created by heredity alone, are the forms of thought, the logic, and, above all, the character of the Western man.
"Tents," said Migwan, with a reminiscent sigh. "Umbrellas," said Sahwah. Mrs. Evans fell down on "V." "Varnish," said Chapa. "W" was too much for Medmangi. "Wire," said Nyoda. "X," said Sahwah, "there is no such thing. Oh, yes, there is, too; Xylophones, they're made here." Gladys and Migwan met their Waterloo on "Y." "Yeast," said Nyoda.
So this supposition that his companion had ceased to love Elfride was an enormous lightening of the weight which had turned the scale against him. 'Admitting that Elfride COULD love another man after you, said the elder, under the same varnish of careless criticism, 'she was none the worse for that experience. 'The worse? Of course she was none the worse.
An unusual equipage was turning in from the Trinidad road an equipage on which leather and varnish shone, and harness brasses flashed, while the dust rolled pompously after it in a freakish fantasy of postilions and outriders. The driver made a great business of his long whip. The horses were sleek and brown.
Arthur that this queer intoxication of mine should have altered him so in my foolish eyes as though one had scrubbed all the golden varnish from an old picture, and left it crude and charmless. It is not his fault is mine. In Europe we loved the same things; his pleasure kindled mine.
Give him an hour or two with that old Amati if she really cared for music! She would be coming to the apartment again some afternoon, when his host was out of the way. Better still, he would call her by telephone; the plea of loneliness. Scoundrel? Of course he was. He was not denying that. He would embark upon this affair without the smug varnish of self-lies. Fire to play with it!
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