If I had ever met the giant Cormoran, I should have made a point of agreeing with him in his literary opinions.-Esther Lyon. It is difficult for a woman ever to try to be anything good when she is not believed in-when it is always supposed that she must be contemptible.Esther Lyon. —0— Harold Transome.-I see you can be ardent in your admiration. Esther Lyon.-Yes, it is my champagne; you know I don't like the other kind. -0 One likes a 'beyond' everywhere.-Esther Lyon. There are new eras in one's life that are equivalent to youth—are something better than youth.-Harold Transome. -0- It is rather too much for any man to keep the consciences of all his party.-Harold Transome. -0 The difference between Liberal and Liberal, as you and I know, is something like the difference between fish and fish.-Harold Transome. A ready tongue may do a man as much harm as good in a court of justice. He piques himself on making a display, and displays a little too much.-Harold Transome. I have heard it said, a bridge is a good thing-worth helping to make, though half the men who worked at it were rogues.-Harold Transome. Mr. Nuttwood.-I cannot but think it a snare when a professing Christian has a bass voice like Brother Kemp's. It makes him desire to be heard of men; but the weaker song of the humble may have more power in the ear of God. Felix Holt.-Do you think it any better vanity to flatter yourself that God likes to hear you, though men don't? Mr. Nuttwood.-Mr. Lyon may understand you, sir. He seems to be fond of your conversation. But you have too much of the pride of human learning for me. I follow no new lights. Felix.-Then follow an old one. Follow the light of the old-fashioned Presbyterians that I've heard sing at Glasgow. The preacher gives out the psalm, and then everybody sings a different tune, as it happens to turn up in their throats. It's a domineering thing to set a tune and expect everybody else to follow it. It's a denial of private judgment. |