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 "You must hear the next, and you'll see what I meant. 'One represents the literary class, the thinkers, people who seek a law for every event and a principle for every act, thus separating themselves from the masses, the people of action, who go forward to perform whatever their hands find to do without any settled law or principle to guide them. Yet these last have the dim outlines of some undefined emotion which language fails them to express, but to which they can readily respond when clearly represented by the former class. So one acts as a supplement to the other.

"There now, stop there, and don't go to gettin' off any more big words. The trouble with you is that when you've said somethin' sensible you spile it all by goin' into somethin' you don't know nothin' about, and that the king of England nor his court fool couldn't understand. What you said there last is just my sentiments, that these folks that think so much and pretend to be so knowin' ain't the ones that does the work. And just as you said, them that does the work know just as much after all only they don't know how to express it. Now you see that first big sentence you got off wa'nt clear; but its most tea time, and I must leave you to your destruction, only don't set the house a fire with your novel, cause we shall want somewhere to stay, and can't turn into angels and fly away as you want to."

Milly looked out at her window upon the meadows where the cattle were grazing in quiet content, and the misty shadows were resting on the hill-sides, she listened to the song of the birds and inhaled the fra-