4/23 Here he is on his own ground; and here he has a pupil to his hand--a strange, an enigmatical, but a lovely one. "Believe me knowledge is the one good thing that life contains worth having. Pleasure, riches, rank, _all_ sink to insignificance beside it." "How do you know ?" says she. "You haven't tried the others." "I know it, for all that. |