of the sea i understood � the bay of where boats were and tall hills that looked like tumbled down castles then came more open country � i suppose � with some sheep once a flock of black ones and then the lovely hues of this rain washed world the water under these dark clouds took on a peculiar it looked at times like steel � at times like muddy lead i felt my heart leap up as i thought of our own george and what he would have done with these scenes and what the english has done though he preferred as a rule another key at four thirty one of the charming english came and asked if we would have tea in the dining car we would we arose and in a few moments were entering one of those dainty little basket cars the tables were covered with white linen and simple pretty china and a silver tea service it was n t as if you were at all i felt as though i were stopping at the house a at forty of a friend or as though i were in the comer of some well known and friendly inn tea was served we ate toast and talked cheerfully this whole trip � the landscape the dining car this tea miss x and her lover miss e and � finally enveloped my fancy like a dream i realized that i was a novel situation which would not soon come again the idea of this pretty mistress coming to england to join her lover and so frankly admitting her history and her purpose rather took my mind as an intellectual treat you really don t often get to see this sort of thing i don t it s in its flavor to me being a man of the world took it as a matter of course � his sole idea being i fancy that the refinement of personality and thought involved in the situation were sufficient to permit him to it i always judge his emotion by that one gleaming eye behind the the other does not take my attention so much i knew from his attitude that and morals and things like that had nothing to do with his selection of what he would consider interesting personal companionship were they interesting could they tell him something new would they amuse him were they nice � in their clothing in their manners in the hundred little material which make up a fashionable lady or gentleman if so welcome if not hence and talent oh yes he had a keen eye for talent and he loves the exceptional and will obviously do anything and everything within his power to foster it having started so late it grew nearly dark after tea and the distant were not so easy to we came presently in the mist to a place called i think where were great black and the ride to london and lights burning wistfully in the dark and then to another similar place and finally to a third � great of manufacture i should judge for there were flaming lights from great golden from open and dark blue smoke visible even at this hour from tall overhead and gleaming electric lights like bright diamonds i never see this sort of place but i think of and and the of western along the line of the railroad i shall never forget the first time i saw and and saw how was fired it was on my way to new york i had never seen any mountains before and suddenly after the low flat plains of and with their pretty little wooden villages so suggestive of the new life of the new world we rushed into and then the mountains of western the it was somewhat like this night coming from only it was not so rainy the hills rose tall and green the of with a red gleam mile after mile until i thought it was the most wonderful sight i had ever seen and then came the beyond mile after mile of them glowing down in the low valleys between the tall hills where our train was following a stream bed it seemed a great sad heroic thing then to me � plain day labor those common ignorant men working before flaming stripped to the waist in some instances fascinated my imagination i have always at the of nature � the way it will give one man a low brow and a narrow mind a narrow round of thought and make a slave or horse of him and another a light mind a quick wit and a at forty air and make a gentleman of him no human being can solve either the question of ability or utility is your gentleman useful yes and no perhaps is your useful yes and no perhaps i should say obviously yes but see the differences in the reward of labor � physical labor one eats his hard earned crust in the sweat of his face the other pick at his of courses and wonders why this or that doesn t taste better i did not make my mind i did not make my art i cannot choose my taste except by instinct and yet here i am sitting in a comfortable english home as i write the poor working man i nature here and now as i always do and always shall do as being unfair unjust i see in the whole thing no scheme but an accidental one � no justice save accidental justice now and then in a way some justice is done but it is accidental no individual man seems to will it he can t he doesn t know how he can t think how and there s an end of it but these queer weird hard sad cities � what great writer has yet sung the song of 