Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII. "The new society at last, proportionate to nature, In man of you, more than your mountain peaks or stalwart trees imperial, In woman more, far more, than all your gold or vines, or even vital air Fresh come, to a new world indeed, yet long prepared, I see the genius of the modern child of the real and ideal, Clearing the ground for broad humanity... To build a grander future." Walt Whitman. It was Michaelmas day, and I started to Bat goose with the Bedingars. It was my invariable custom to do so every year; for my uncle and aunt always did so, and I kept to their rules in this as in all other respects. I was late, and obliged to hurry by the way. Michaelmas is a very busy season, and a multitude of affairs had kept me occupied all the morning. Besides my usual concerns, a lawyer had pestered me about the title deeds of a small house and piece of land which my uncle disposed of many years ago. That is the way with lawyers. They are the world's bad conscience. It is the misdeeds they love to dwell upon--ay, to dig up and resuscitate. I cannot doubt that the command to the lawyer to love his neighbour as himself was intended as a rebuke to the whole profession. Yet one must give them their due. If there is about them the dry, hollow cynicism of a skeleton, they also possess something of its reticence, for it strikes me that if lawyers revealed half they knew, one half of the world would be taking its turn in prison with the other half--either for their own deeds or those of their forbears. In the letters from this particular lawyer much was raked up about my family which I was troubled to peruse. Our ancestors were a hard, bad, cruel race. Wonderful it is to think that the gospel of St. John was ever preached in their day! No one can convince m...
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