Opening a Chestnut Burr
of sweet, low music; and how long ago was that? He looked at his watch; it was nearly two, and he must have slept several hours. He glanced around and saw that he was a
h more than Yankee curiosity, which was at the bottom of their superstitious questionings, I will pry into her power. But she w
er work also? Has she swept away the clouds with her broomstick? And there goes the din
sitting-room at that m
st be
sked, "How do you
ning to Mr. Walton, he said, abrupt
aid Mr. Walton, a
tinued he,
e you had experienc
, and in your
worse for it," said
t so well in months. Yo
iced upon
witchery this exceeds," said Annie, laughi
Gregory. "What possessed the old Puritans to persecute the Salem wi
f what was agreeable or otherwise scar
t into persecution with a zeal that abstract right can hardly account for. People will have their excitements, and
that among them were earnest men who did from good motives what appears very wrong to us. What seemed to them evil and destructive p
doctrinal errors. To refute and banish these would require much study and argument on the part of the opponent. It was so much easier to take
nie, "and the man killed merely goes into
e wrong, and that he had better have been content with
said Annie, satirically. "But you have not answered my question. Could not good, earnest men ha
g politicians of our time, who button-hole you and assert that the world will come to an end unless John Smith is elected. To me, the desperate earnestness of people who imagine it their mission to
pt their visions to themselves, and that Luther should have remained in his cell, and Col
am willing to argue with flesh and blood, but I would rather hear you sing. Still, since you have swe
ard, I doubt whether any one could unhorse you," she rep
are my detestati
r age. Of course it depends upon what kind of hobbies
d one idea, banging back and forth on a wooden horse, but making no progre
s some question of vital import, or a pursuit that promises good to himself and to others and that enlists his interest. He comes at last to give it his best energies and thought. The whole current of his life is setting in th
these words, that which caused him to regard her with inv
k she said, "If you detest a man with a hobby, wha
ted that you
is idiotic, narrow-browed, fussy and bustling, excessively obtrusive with his one idea, a woman must be like him wit
ritualized my wooden block into a Pegasus-the
hav
t is
smilingly over her shoulder, "You