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"We just let him drivel on until he is aware no one
is listening."
"Seer Marcous is very wise," said Carlotta, in serious defence of
her lord and master. "All day he reads in big books and writes
on paper."
I have been wondering since whether that is not as ironical a
judgment as ever was passed. Am I wise? Is wisdom attained by
reading in big books and writing on paper? Solomon remarks that
wisdom dwells with prudence and finds out knowledge of witty
inventions; that the wisdom of the prudent is to understand his
way; that wisdom and understanding keep one from the strange
woman and the stranger which flattereth with her words. Now, I
have not been saved from the strange young woman who has begun to
flatter with her words; I don't in the least understand my way,
since I have no notion what I shall do with her; and in taking
her in and letting her loll upon my sofa of evenings, so as to
show off her red slippers to my guests, I have thrown prudence to
the winds; and my only witty invention was the idea of teaching
her typewriting, which is futile.


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