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He even thought of selling out his location and abandoning it, that he might escape the cold surveillance of his heartless friend. All this was undoubtedly childish but there is an irrepressible simplicity of youth in all deep feeling, and the worldly inexperience of the frontiersman left him as innocent as a child.
It was so swift that its surface shone like polished blue steel, and from it came the blessed, our worldly, familiar ocean breath that strengthened my soul amazingly and made me realize how earth-sick I was. Whence came the stream, I marvelled, forgetting for the moment, as we passed on again, all else.
The widow blushed for once, saying as she did so, that there was a time when such a compliment would not have been lost upon her, but now that she had got on the wrong side of forty, was getting gray, and had seen three dear good husbands put away in the grave, she did not think it right to be "lookin' out," especially as Parson Stebbins had always said, when he looked in, that woman's worldly thoughts ought to end at forty.
Was it not strange that she whose soul we have hitherto seen bent on deeds or schemes of stern and important nature who never acted without a motive, and whose mind was far too deeply occupied with worldly cares and pursuits to bestow a thought on trifles who, indeed, would have despised herself had she wasted a moment in toying with a flower, or watching the playful motions of a bird, was it not strange that Nisida should have become so changed as we now find her in that island of which she was the queen?
When he perceived that those worldly wise young men of the press saw through the dodge, he became more adept, more adroit, more delicate in method. But the end was the same. It was about this time that he invested in his first scrap-book. Into this secret granary went every seed of his printed personal history.
Never was an opportunity, more propitious for a desperate lover. Had it been Renee next him, no petty worldly scruples of honour would have held him back. And if Cecilia had spoken feelingly of Dr. Shrapnel, or had she simulated a thoughtful interest in his pursuits, his hesitations would have vanished. As it was, he dared to look what he did not permit himself to speak.
What is he, after all, they would say? A runaway. Judged by mere worldly considerations and probabilities, his story is a very doubtful one. 'You believe it, surely? interrupted Rose. 'I believe it, strange as it is; and perhaps I may be an old fool for doing so, rejoined the doctor; 'but I don't think it is exactly the tale for a practical police-officer, nevertheless.
It is no more an argument against the vital significance of the novel that tens of thousands of people that everybody, in fact should to-day essay that form of art, than it is an argument against poetry that for all the centuries droves and flocks of versifiers and scribblers and rhymesters have succeeded in making the name of poet a little foolish in worldly eyes. The true function of poetry!
"Dear Meg," Sir Thomas wrote for the last time, "I never liked your manner better towards me than when you kissed me last. For I like when daughterly love and dear charity hath no leisure to look to worldly courtesy." Next day he died cheerfully as he had lived. To the last he jested in his quaint fashion.
King Henry the Eighth was the first who had a stage erected for worldly amusement likewise, and caused to be represented on it subjects other than mere dramatized church history. As he freed the church from its spiritual head, the pope, so he wished to free the stage from the church, and to behold upon it other more lively spectacles than the roasting of saints and the massacre of inspired nuns.
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