"
"For I," he continued, after a pause for breath, while Glyde stared
fearfully upon him, "for I, too, have betrayed her."
They said no more at that time, but all day Glyde followed Senhouse about
like a dog.
In the evening of what to the undrilled youth was a hard-spent day,
Senhouse unfolded his heart and talked long and eloquently of love and
other mysteries of our immortal life.
"The attainment of our desires," he said, "appears to every one of us to
be a Law of Nature, and so, no doubt, it is. But that is equally valid
which says, 'To every man that which he is fit to enjoy.' The task of men
is to reconcile the two. That once done you are whole--nay, you are holy."
"I believe that I am in the way of that salvation, look you, for I know
now that there is hardly a thing upon the earth which I cannot do without.
That being so, and all things of equal value, or of no value, _I have them
all_. They are at the disposal of that part of myself which enters no
markets and cannot be chaffered away. Wind, rain, and sun have bleached
me; dinners of herbs have reduced my flesh to obedience; incessant toil,
with meditation under the stars, have driven my thoughts along channels
graved deep by patient plodding of the field.
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