Capitolo 6
misusing only us because she feels him none taller of us?
What is it waited for getting from his/her acute language? That that ago her
does know, some way?"
Mrs. Lee certainly knew very little. You had voraciously read and
promiscuously a subject after another. Ruskin and Taine had
happily danced through his/her mind, of equal footstep with Darwin and
Stuart Mill, Gustave Droz and Algernon Swinburne. You also had
operated on the literature of his really country. Perhaps you were,
the only woman in New York that he/she knew anything of American
history. She could not certainly repeat the list of Presidents
in their order, but she knew that the Constitution divided the
goverument in Executive of firm, Legislative, and Magistracy; she was
aware that the President, the orator and the President of the Short Supreme were
important characters, and instinctively she wondered if theirs
it would not resolve his/her problem; if theirs were the trees of shade
what she saw in his/her dreams.
Then it was here the explanation of his/her restlessness dissatisfaction,,
ambition,--call him what you want. It was the feeling of a passenger
on a steamboat of ocean whose mind won't give him rest until him
you/he/she has been in the motor-room and you/he/she has talked to the engineer. You
wanted to see with his/her his/her own eyes the action of primary strengths; to
you touch with his/her his/her own hand the thick apparatus of society; to
you measure with his/her his/her own mind the ability of the power of motive. You
the arrival was bent to the heart of the great American mystery
of the democracy and government. You took care of few where his/her search
it would conduct her/it, for her it didn't put eccentric value on the life, while it is having
already, as she said, it exhausted at least the two lives, and being fairly
hardened to the insensibility in the trial. "Losing a husband and a
child", it said her, "and it holds the courage of one and it reasons, one owes
becomes very hard or a lot of rubber bands. Now I am pure steel. You can strike