Will Davis
Will Davis
closely glow good helped luminous man path rule shines summer talk ugly whose wise words worm
It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below.
glad laborer patriotic truly
You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it.
breath parts
The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.
acts apparently balancing flying grand high hill houses inhabited lives man portugal red row sheep side signal tower watch white yellow
Portugal is a high hill with a white watch tower on it flying signal flags. It is apparently inhabited by one man who lives in a long row of yellow houses with red roofs, and populated by sheep who do grand acts of balancing on the side of the hill.
anyone besides cut deal glad good harassed holiday laugh run selfish six start
Of course, the idea of a six months' holiday is enough to make anyone laugh at anything, but I find that besides that I was a good deal harassed and run down, and I am glad to cut off from everything and start fresh. I feel miserably selfish about it all the time.
fine morocco spoiled
Morocco as it is is a very fine place spoiled by civilization.
couple few found lively necessary pull punch sports
I have just come from a couple of raids, where we had a very lively time, and some of them had to pull their guns. I found it necessary to punch a few sports myself.
act alarm fire grateful nice party unusually wrote
To-night I am going to take a party to the headquarters of the fire department, where I have a cinch on the captain, a very nice fellow, who is unusually grateful for something I wrote about him and his men. They are going to do the Still Alarm act for me.
came friday house junior left opera wednesday
Wednesday a junior came to me, and told me I was to be hazed as I left the Opera House Friday night.
architecture building architect
I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.
architecture composer
I am but an architectural composer.
account fellows good hat looked object sort special though
You see, I'd not a very good place here; the fellows looked on me as a sort of special object of ridicule, on account of the hat and cane, walk, and so on, though I thought I'd got over that by this time.
cannot good late moral true
Anything as good and true as that moral cannot be new at this late date.
last less night offer offered satisfied
The more I thought of the McClure offer the less I thought of it. So I told him last night I was satisfied where I was, and that the $75 he offered me was no inducement.