The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-02-17

precarlous tenure oy wnIcn men noid rnose
good things whoreon, s0 long a. they arc stiu
their own. they are SD quick 20 rear an edifice
OF optimist philosophy 4 week before. his
sisters affection had been t0 lim the ono sudl-
Gent screen between his own consciousness
and the desoiate threatening immonsitic5 Of
thought and Of existence The screen had
fallen, and the darkreis seemed 10 Doe rush.
ing in upon him And sl.il life had 10 DO
lived, work % De 81. through. duties o. be
faced How is DO douei be- kept vaguely Won
dering How is il that men i've 0l 90 old
age aud see bond after bond hr0sen, and pos
session after possession swept away. and sdu
find the years to.erabls AMI tie sun pleasant.
still cherish in themselves that il.xh1ustible
faith in an ideal something which lnplies
from century To- century lle uY.lc.lle mo-
tive power of The race,
Presently-by virtue of long critical aud
philosophical Alb.t-hs mind brought i-..lf
% bear more anl more steadily upon DIS own
position; De stepped bies. as i.uer.. from
himself and became bis Own spectator The
interpretive temper was not common with
him bis mind was naturally turned outward
towards Otler people, towards books, to-
ward Intellectual interests. But s.i study
had bad its charm Cor him oi late. and.
among other thing. it was now plain Oh him
that up % the moment of bis first meeting
with lsabc, Breiherion Dbl. lie had been
mostly that 0l an 0lil0ler-a byaaniar.
Society. OLD and now, men aud women NJ the
past aud OF The present. th1 speculative
4.I... ..fI ..HI D..
these bad constituted % sort off vast drama
before bis eyes, which he bad watched and
Studied with ora ever living curiosity But
DIS interest in his particular role had been
comparatively weak. and in auaiyz.nr oth8r
iudivIduaiiues he had run some rlss OF losing
his own
Then love came by, and the half dormant
personality within him had been seized mon
and reused. ltlo rs lttio. into n glowing
although a repres-ei and hidden energy 10
bad learned in his own person what 10 means
% crave t1 thirst, % want And u0w. srlet
had followed aud had pinned him moro
closely than ever % hls special lI1llo part in
tho human spectacle The old l0itinoss, tho
old pacdity of mood were gone Tie had
loved. and lost, aud despaired Beside those
great experiences how trivial aud evaucsclnt
seemed an the interest Of the lfa that went
before thcml He looked back over DIS inter
course with Isabel Brethwt0u, aud The points
upon which it had turned seemed SD remote
from him, SD Insignificant, that for tho mo-
meut bee could hardly realize them. The ar
tslc aud aesthetic questions which had
seemed % him 30 vital six months be-
fore had faded almost ont of view in the
fierce neighb0rh00l Of sorrow aud passion.
His first relation 90 her bad been that OF one
who knows 90 one who is ignorant; hut that
puuy link bad dropped. and le was going 90
meet her now, fresh from the presence Of
death loving her as man loves woman,
and claiming from her nothing bu- pity for
bis grief, balm for his wound tho answer of
human tenderle o. human need
How strange and sad that She should De
still in ignorance Of bis loss and hcrs lnthe
early morning after lmee death. wnen ho
woke up from % few heavy hours of sleep, hi5
mind bad been full ol her How was the
news 49, broken to leri Hs himself did
not feel that Dee could leave f.s Or.ther-in-
Jaw. There was strong De-, ard aad srIu-
pathy between chem, ald ha presence ll tlo
house Of mourning would undoubtedly lo
n.af,I fo Paul for "a while. besides. there
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"a fa.y -,ferr ebi.l u.-e I.ul.rg on
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bee hoped tlu. u0 neu page. would a.IU. l.-
thc news before DIS lester e.a.l i..o-
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