"
Elinor changed the subject; as a girl she had drawn rather well,
and she had retained her interest in that form of art. There was
an exhibition in town of colored drawings. Lily should see them.
But Jim Doyle countered her move.
"I forgot to mention," he said, "that in this ideal world we were
discussing the arts will flourish. Not at once, of course,
because the artists will be fighting--"
"Fighting?"
"Per aspera ad astra," put in Louis Akers. "You cannot change a
world in a day, without revolution--"
"But you don't believe that revolution is ever worth while, do you?"
"If it would drive starvation and wretchedness from the world, yes."
Lily found Louis Akers interesting. Certainly he was very handsome.
And after all, why should there be misery and hunger in the world?
There must be enough for all. It was hardly fair, for instance,
that she should have so much, and others scarcely anything. Only
it was like thinking about religion; you didn't get anywhere with it.
You wanted to be good, and tried to be. And you wanted to love God,
only He seemed so far away, mostly. And even that was confusing,
because you prayed to God to be forgiven for wickedness, but it was
to His Son our Lord one went for help in trouble.
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