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He certainly resembled his father, who, by the ore out tomen

without any satisfaction to himself, because they did not come up to his

supra-refined standard of the delicacy which is so perceptible in his

verses That's your poet He demands too much from others The

inarticulate son had set up a standard for hi in his conduct the dreaements of verses, which are dearer to him than his own

self--and may make his own self appear sublime in the eyes of other

people, and even in his own eyes

Did Anthony wish to appear sublie; though indeed there are other, less noble, ambitions at

which the world does not dare to smile But I don't think so; I do not

even think that there was in what he did a conscious and lofty confidence

in himself, a particularly pronounced sense of pohich leads men so

often into impossible or equivocal situations Looked at abstractedly

(the way in which truth is often seen in its real shape) his life had

been a life of solitude and silence--and desire

Chance had thrown that girl in his way; and if we may smile at his