[Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookDiana of the Crossways CHAPTER XVIII 3/26
She would be healthier and have a chance of living longer if she were reduced by a reversal of the processes.
But how would the judicious clippings and prickings affect our "pensive public"? Now that I have furnished a house and have a fixed address, under the paws of creditors, I feel I am in the wizard-circle of my popularity and subscribe to its laws or waken to incubus and the desert. Have I been rash? You do not pronounce.
If I have bound myself to pipe as others please, it need not be entirely; and I can promise you it shall not be; but still I am sensible when I lift my "little quill" of having forced the note of a woodland wren into the popular nightingale's--which may end in the daw's, from straining; or worse, a toy-whistle. 'That is, in the field of literature.
Otherwise, within me deep, I am not aware of any transmutation of the celestial into coined gold. I sound myself, and ring clear.
Incessant writing is my refuge, my solace--escape out of the personal net.
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