1 Perhaps we never really had it.
2 But we never get back our youth.
3 To test reality we must see it on the tight rope.
4 Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us.
5 "But we have such grave responsibilities," ventured Mrs. Vandeleur timidly.
6 They live as we all should live--undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet.
7 That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.
8 As a rule, he is charming to me, and we sit in the studio and talk of a thousand things.
9 You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages.
10 It is of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or spring-time, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon.
11 In fact I consider you extremely dangerous, and if anything happens to our good duchess, we shall all look on you as being primarily responsible.
12 But, as the nineteenth century has gone bankrupt through an over-expenditure of sympathy, I would suggest that we should appeal to science to put us straight.
13 When we meet--we do meet occasionally, when we dine out together, or go down to the Duke's--we tell each other the most absurd stories with the most serious faces.
14 In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.
15 We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.
16 He is some brainless beautiful creature who should be always here in winter when we have no flowers to look at, and always here in summer when we want something to chill our intelligence.
17 He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression, or when some thought that terrifies us lays sudden siege to the brain and calls on us to yield.
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