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whose existence was ignored who was nothing but a mat for
kings & kaisers to tread on, who would indeed stand patiently in the
streets to see the kings go riding by, & whose sugar & tea were now
cut cut down by their passions & about to be reduced at their command,
passes any sort of an that of the45 understanding. Unless it be granted
that the crazed, & the mystic, & the visionary have access to
are possessed at long intervals it may be of compensation: the
wind in the W46est, & the breeze sun upon the clouds. If they
find in them absolute good, an extra lump of sugar more or less
matters nothing. They are warm in the frost, & have
comforts in the desert. Only Mrs. MacNab was not of these;
she had been drunk in her day, & of her six children, two, it was
said were not by her husband; she had lived, she had loved, in
short, & if consolation came to her it was of some
warmer, subtler kind. Perhaps she had an open heart, a
loving heart, & thus if she asked charity (her caretaking
was given her to help her) rather than she returned it by
thus

 


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