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But neither the Secretaryship nor the Association itself had any continuance; nor can I now learn accurately more of it than what is here stated; in which vague state it must vanish from Sterling's history again, as it in great measure did from his life. From himself in after-years I never heard mention of it; nor were his pursuits connected afterwards with those of Mr.
Sterling's bodily disease was the expression, under physical conditions, of the too vehement life which, under the moral, the intellectual and other aspects, incessantly struggled within him. Too vehement; which would have required a frame of oak and iron to contain it: in a thin though most wiry body of flesh and bone, it incessantly "wore holes," and so found outlet for itself.
Sterling's days, during this time as always, were full of occupation, cheerfully interesting to himself and others; though, the wrecks of theology so encumbering him, little fruit on the positive side could come of these labors. On the negative side they were productive; and there also, so much of encumbrance requiring removal, before fruit could grow, there was plenty of labor needed.
The latest comer at the June Holiday Home received her visitors with shy courtesy. Miss Crilly and Polly soon relieved her of any embarrassment she may have felt, and talk went on blithely. Several smiling glances thrown across the room by Polly put Miss Sterling's mind in confusion.
Old Radicalism and mutinous audacious Ethnicism having thus fallen to wreck, and a mere black world of misery and remorse now disclosing itself, whatsoever of natural piety to God and man, whatsoever of pity and reverence, of awe and devout hope was in Sterling's heart now awoke into new activity; and strove for some due utterance and predominance.
I'm glad I ain't in Mis' Dick's shoes!" Miss Crilly emerged from the folds of Miss Sterling's petticoats. She brushed back her disordered hair and drew a long, laughing sigh. "Isn't it lovely they've found out! I b'lieve I'd have been luny myself in a little while if they hadn't!" "Nonsense!" pooh-poohed Mrs. Albright. "You couldn't stay luny more'n half a twinkle!
Polly was too excited to heed Miss Sterling's warning pinch. "I never saw anything out of the way in her," attested Miss Mullaly. "She has always appeared to me like a very cultured woman." "She is a perfect lady," asserted Mrs. Winslow Teed. "Yes, she is!" agreed Miss Castlevaine. "I guess Miss Sniffen's the one that's losing her mind huh!" "Is she as bad as ever?" queried Mrs. Tenney anxiously.
John Sterling's criticism of it says: "It is really very striking, and parts of it are very true and very beautiful. It is not so true or so thoroughly clear and harmonious among delineations of English middle-class gentility as Miss Austen's books, especially as 'Pride and Prejudice, which I think exquisite."
This was Captain Sterling's first attempt towards a fixed course of life; not a very wise one, I have understood: yet on the whole, who, then and there, could have pointed out to him a wiser?
"You are late," she said with a half smile. "Have you had an accident?" "Oh, no!" Nelson Randolph answered. "We went up to Bryston to dinner, that is all. Miss Sterling thought she had better return home early, but I coaxed her to keep on and find out how Belgian hare tasted." He laughed lightly and said good-night. Miss Sterling's foot was on the stair when the superintendent arrested her.
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