Under St Paul's Author:Richard Dowling Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: caught red-handed could not have been more amazed with fear. He had never been accused of poetry before, and her words were like heartless revellers who broke in... more »to the sanctuary of his soul, tore from it his most sacred secret, and set it up in the marketplace to be jeered at by all the town. She laughed softly. ' There is no witchery in it. I told you you were not intelligent, but you were intellectual. I am not intellectual, but I am intelligent. You are intellectual and a poet. I am intelligent, and I found you out.' CHAPTER III. IN THE CHURCHYARD. ' As you people live here in England,' said Nevill, next morning at breakfast, ' this meal is the gloomiest, dinner is the solemnest, and supper is the sleepiest of the day. I can always understand a man being gloomy in the morning, but why people should be solemn at dinner and sleepy at supper I never could make out. The only way I can come near accounting for a man being solemn at dinner is because it is the most expensive meal of the day, and there is no way in the world so good for knocking the fun out of John Bull as to bleed him. But why people should look sleepy at supper licks me hollow !' ' Perhaps, sir,' said the solid-looking man, ' it is because the people are sleepy.' ' From what I know of Mr Nevill,' said Miss Gordon, ' I don't think he will be satisfied with a straightforward answer like that.' ' This very straightforwardness is the curse of the English character,' answered Nevill. ' To teV plain truth, right out, is the impulse of a savage. To conceal all that is unpleasant, because it may give pain to others, is the perfection of culture. Why on earth should straightforwardness or any other virtue come stamping on my corns ? I know, for instance, that my nose is not Roman. But that is no reaso...« less