30/50 Your organism is 'sensitive,' and that's why you experience things that I don't." "Oh, why did you break the spell ?" cried Austin, regretfully. "What harm could it have done you? And this is natural enough, if one could only understand the way it works." "Many things are natural that are not desirable," returned St Aubyn, walking up and down. "It's quite natural for people to go to sea, but it makes some of them sea-sick, nevertheless, and they had better stay on shore. It's all a matter of temperament, I suppose, and what is pleasant for you is something that my own instincts warn me very carefully to avoid." Austin drew his handkerchief across his eyes, as though beginning to come back to the realities of life. |