Now that is really
good. I don't quite know what Hester means by saying he took exercise in
his clerical _cul-de-sac_. I think she means _surtout_, but she is a
good French scholar, so she probably knows what she is talking about."
Whatever the book lacked it did not lack interest. Still, it bristled
with blemishes.
And then what could the Pratts, or indeed any one, make of such a
sentence as this:
"When we look back at what we were seven years ago, five years ago, and
perceive the difference in ourselves, a difference amounting almost to
change of identity; when we look back and see in how many characters we
have lived and loved and suffered and died before we reached the
character that momentarily clothes us, and from which our soul is
struggling out to clothe itself anew; when we feel how the sympathy even
of those who love us best is always with our last expression, never with
our present feeling, always with the last dead self on which our
climbing feet are set--"
"She is hopelessly confused," said Mr. Gresley, without reading to the
end of the sentence, and substituting the word _ladder_ for _dead self_.
"Of course, I see what she means, the different stages of life, the
infant, the boy, the man, but hardly any one else will so understand
it.
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