It does nae blaze into a conflagration at a
comfortable wee bit of false doctrine."
I should love to stay all the summer with my old friend, It seems
that only from such a remote solitude can one view things mundane
in the right perspective, and in their true proportion. One
would see how important or unimportant portant in the cosmos was
the agricultural ant's dream of three millimetres and an aphis
compared with the aspirations of the English labourer. One would
justly focus the South African millionaire, Sandy McGrath and the
ram, and bring them to their real lowest common denominator. One
would even be able to gauge the value of a History of Renaissance
Morals. The benefits I should derive from a long sojourn are
incalculable, but my new responsibilities call me back to London
and its refracting and distorting atmosphere. If I had dwelt
here for fifty years I should have perceived that Carlotta was
but a speck in the whirlwind of human dust whose ultimate destiny
was immaterial. As my five days' visit, however, has not
advanced me to that pitch of wisdom, I am foolishly concerned in
my mind as to her welfare, and anxious to dissolve the
triumvirate, Miss Griggs, Stenson, and Antoinette, whom I have
entrusted with the reins of government.
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