PROF. D. It has just the speciousness that runs away with young
people. I should like to talk it over with him. Do you think I
should be in the way if I ran down?
C. I should think a visit from you would be an immense pleasure to
him; and I am sure it would be good for the place to be stirred up.
PROF. D. You have not learnt to prize that atmosphere in which
things always seem to assume their true proportion, and to prompt
the cry of St. Bernard's brother--'All earth for me, all heaven for
you.'
C. That was surely an outcome of the time when people used to
sacrifice certainties to uncertainties, and spoil life for the sake
of they knew not what.
PROF. D. For eye hath not seen, nor ear heard.
STRANGER. Mr. Dunlop! This is an unexpected pleasure!
C. (ALONE). Well, wonders will never cease. The great Professor
Dunlop talking to me quite preachy and goody; and of all people in
the world, the old man at Darkglade turning out to be a great
physiologist!