It suits G.'s character.
C1.14-15.

Speech full of metaphor: winter stalking on, with hunter and frost attendant on either side; a stealthy, but august advance.
C1.16.A happy simile: _vide_ Book of Wisdom [c.

5, 10, "And as a ship that passeth over the waves of the water," etc.].
C1.38.How a fault may be turned to account: Hellenic stool of repentance.
C1.41.Theory of two souls, to account for the yielding to base desires.
It works, but is it not the theory of a man whose will is weak, as we say, or whose sympathetic nature has been developed at the expense of his self-regulative?
There is another way of putting it in _Memorabilia_, Bk.

I.c.ii., Sec.Sec.

19-28.