Part 12 (2/2)
Then soe had been seen waiting, and hat abundant skill it had been watched and tracked froave an order about the posting of the guard, and, beckoning only one mounted attendant to follow hi a turn or two to throw the curious off the scent, and then headed straight for the temple on his own account
Chapter Five
An Audit by the Gods
(I)
Thus spoke the Gods fro and the music and the mirth: ”There is time and tide to burn; Let us stack the plates a turn And study at our leisure what the trouble is with earth”
Down, down they looked through the azure of the Infinite Scanning each the meadohere he ithaloud - Till the murmur of God wonder was a titan thunder-roar
”War rocks the world! Look, the arquebus and culverin Vanish in new sciences that presage T N T!
Lo, a dark, discolored swath Where they drive new tools of wrath!
Do they justify invention? Will they scrap the Laws that Be?
”Look! Mark ye well: where we left a people flourishi+ng Singing in the sunshi+ne for the fun of being free, Now they burden eois blow their noses by a communal decree!
”Where, where away are the liberties we left to thee of fun?
Is delight no longer praise?
Will they famish all their days For a future built of fury in a present scarce begun?”
”Most Precious friendplease visitin India that never happens is the expected If the actual thing itself does occur, then the encies that only the subtlest mind, and the sanest and the least hidebound by opinion, can hope to read the signs fast enough to understand them as they happen Naturally, there are always plenty of people who can read backward after the event; and the few of those who keep the lesson to the it, are to be found eventually filling the senior secretaryshi+ps, albeit bitterly criticized by the otherafterward very cleverly and are always unani certainly knew nothing, and is therefore of no account and should wield no influence, Q E D
And as we belong to thethe course of these events very cleverly long after they took place, we ical, denounce Theresa Blaine She was just as much puzzled as anybody But she said uesswork, pondered in her heart persistently whatever she had actually seen and heard, and in the end was ale of Sialpore to reap advantage
If that does not prove unfitness for one of the leading parts, what does?
A star should scintillate--should focus all eyes on herself and interrupt the progress of the play to let us knoise and beautiful and wonderful she is But Tess apparently agreed with Ha,” and was much too interested in the plot to interfere with it She attended the usual round of dinners, teas and tennis parties, that are part of the syste after a while a little tired of trivialty, she tried to scandalize Sialpore by inviting To Tripe's objections
”Between you and I and the gate-post, lady, they don't hanker for e maybe,--wanted to borrow a horse from the maharajah's stable,--or perhaps they'd like a file o' men to escort a picnic in the hills,--then it's 'Oh, hello, good ? And oh, by the way--'
Then I knohat's co an' what I can do for 'em I do, for I confess, lady, that I hanker for a little bit o' flattery and a feords o' praise I'm not entitled to I don't covet any h to da, and a bet's a bet, but I don't coveto' mine covets fleas
He likes to scratch 'em when he has 'em Me the same; I can use o to hell for h, ot fleas He has 'em, same as hell's most folks' destiny
But when it comes to praise that ain't due 's bone--I've siot to have it, reason or no reason
A common ordinary bone withwonderful But praise I don't deserve is stolen fruit, and that's the sweetest Now, if I was to coht by you, but they'd say I didn't know my place, and by and by they'd prove it to me sharp and sneery I'll be a coward to stop away, but--'Sensible man,' they'll say 'Knohen he isn't wanted' You see, ma'am, yours is the only house in Sialpore where I can walk in and know I'm welcome whether you're at ho to the party, Toed his head and one finger at her in his half-amused paternal manner that would often win for him when all else failed But this time it did not work