9/13 Beside his light-hearted intimacy Miss Cursiter's academic manner showed like the punctilious advances of an outsider. But he was terribly modern this young man. He served strange gods, healers and regenerators whose names had never penetrated to St.Sidwell's. Some days he was really dreadful; he shook his head over the _Idylls of the King_, made no secret of his unbelief in _The Princess_, and shamelessly declared that a great deal of _In Memoriam_ would go where Mendelssohn and the old crinolines have gone. She pointed out the bit about the healers and regenerators, and refreshing yourself at the wells of literature. |