3/24 Can a man like that be foolish, in saying of the Countess Carinthia, she is 'not only quick to understand, she is in the quick of understanding'? She stamped that idea on a thoughtful fellow. They are all excitable,--have heads on hound's legs for a flying figure in front. Still, they must have an object, definitely seen by them--definite to them if dim to their neighbours; and it will run in the poetic direction: and the woman to win them, win all classes of them, within so short a term, is a toss above extraordinary. She is named Carinthia--suitable name for the Welsh pantomimic procession. |