This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 Excerpt: ...soul. In the stress and heat of the day, with cheeks burning, with shouts ringing in the ears, who is so blest as to remember the yearnings he had in the cool and silent morning, and know that he has not belied them? Tito was at one of those lawless moments which come to us all if we have no guide but desire, and the pathway where desire leads us seems suddenly closed; he was ready to follow any beckoning that offered him an immediate purpose. Tito was experiencing that inexorable law of human souls, that we prepare ourselves for sudden deeds by the reiterated choice of good or evil that gradually determines character. Tito had an innate love of reticence--let us say a talent for it--which acted as other impulses do, without any conscious motive, and, like all people to whom concealment is easy, he would now aud then conceal something which had as little the nature of a secret as the fact that he had seen a flight of crows. When was the fatal coquetry inherent in superfluous authorship ever quite contented with the ready praise "f friends? Perfect scheming demands omniscience. Tito felt for the first time, without defining It to himself, that loving awe in the presence of noble womanhood, which is perhaps something like ihe worship paid of old to a great nature-goddess, who was not all-knowing, but whose life and power were something deeper and more primordial than knowledge. Perhaps of all sombre paths that on which we go back, after treading it with a strong resolution, is the one that most severely tests the fervor of renunciation. Life is so complicated a game that the devices of skill are 1!ablo to be defeated at every turn by airblown chances, incalculable as the descent o( thistledown. Our lives make a moral tradition for our individual selves, ...