You have doubtless had occasion to notice that poems which deal with Beings and Inspirations are usually of very imperfect fluidity.
Charlton worked at surveying and such other employments as offered themselves, wrote poems to Helen Minorkey, and plotted and planned how he might break up little Katy's engagement.

He plotted and planned sometimes with a breaking heart, for the more he saw of Smith Westcott, the more entirely detestable he seemed.

But he did not get much co-operation from Isabel Marlay.

If he resented any effort to make a match between him and "Cousin Isa," she resented it ten times more vehemently, and all the more that she, in her unselfishness of spirit, admired sincerely the unselfishness of Charlton, and in her practical and unimaginative life felt drawn toward the idealist young man who planned and dreamed in a way quite wonderful to her.

All her woman's pride made her resent the effort to marry her to a man in love with another, a man who had not sought her.
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