Your life is yours to live, and in so far that I influence it you will not have lived your life, nor would your life have been yours.

Nor would you have been a Welse, for there was never a Welse yet who suffered dictation.

They died first, or went away to pioneer on the edge of things.
"Why, if you thought the dance house the proper or natural medium for self-expression, I might be sad, but to-morrow I would sanction your going down to the Opera House.

It would be unwise to stop you, and, further, it is not our way.

The Welses have ever stood by, in many a lost cause and forlorn hope, knee to knee and shoulder to shoulder.
Conventions are worthless for such as we.