This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ...with which he talked of her, she generalized; and because her " humorous melancholy " was so little appreciated by him, she spent it all on me. She was talking one day of the elusive-ness of life. We were always seeming to catch a meaning in it, she said, first in one place, then in another. In will-o'-the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ...with which he talked of her, she generalized; and because her " humorous melancholy " was so little appreciated by him, she spent it all on me. She was talking one day of the elusive-ness of life. We were always seeming to catch a meaning in it, she said, first in one place, then in another. In will-o'-the-wisp fashion it danced through religion, through philosophy, through aspiration of every kind. We went from illusion to illusion, from dream to dream. The gods (thus Janet named the hostile powers whom she sometimes imagined behind the scenes), in order to amuse themselves, had made this world as a great playground, where their creatures, cobweb-blinded, played an endless game of blindman's buff. The last and most cruel illusion of all was love. It was then that I knew that she had begun to care for the Lad. In the early winter my work developed so as to demand all my time. In consequence of the business depression, the suffering in the city had increased tenfold. My experiences of the daytime haunted me at night. In my dreams I climbed the dark stairways of the poor, and door after door opened in my sleep upon scenes of misery that I could not help. I had no time now to talk with my young friends, but the sight of them comforted me. I found myself looking at Janet with the Lad's eyes. I, too, in watching her face, saw " a glory upon it, as upon the face of one who feels a light round his hair." CHAPTER XXI "The more I muse there inne the mistier it semeth, And the depper I devyne the derker me it thinketh." William Langland. As I look back I am amazed at the amount of talking that we all did. The memory of the winter is a mist of " words, words, words." Long discussions of spiritual questions were new to me. I had come from a world where one...
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Very Good. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Third printing, dated November 1895. Blue-green cloth with green lettering. 215 pp. plus advertising. Light shelfwear. The boards are stained and spotted. There are spots of foxing to the endpapers. Otherwise unmarked and in a square, tight binding.
