A PAIR or BLUE of myself, I will
you
tell
53
EYES.
seriously,' said
Knight, not less amused by this catechism
by
young
his
friend than he
'As I have implied, I
in her appearance.
have not the wish. I
could not
We
all
^ven
now
was interested
And
if I
had the wish,
concentrate sufficiently.
have only our one cruse of energy
lis
to
make
And where
the best of
that energy has been leaked
away week by
week, quarter by quarter, as mine has for the last nine or ten
years, there
is
not
enough dammed back behind the mill at any given period
to
supply the quantum
a complete book on any subject requires.
Then
there
ing power.
is
the self-confidence and wait-
Where quick
results
have grown
customary, they are fatal to a lively faith in the future.' '
Yes, I comprehend
and
so
you choose
to write in fragments?' '
Xo,
sense
I
don't choose
to
do
it
in the
you mean; choosing from a whole
world of professions,
all
possible.
It
was
