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ABOUT PEOPLE.

and they know that any utterance of what they feel would lose its power through their awkwardness. They see men reverenced for that at which they thrill but can never describe. They are always missing, always trying; trembling with the harmonies of nature, they are dumb before their own formless selves. They know that beauty finds ill expression of itself through them; that their tame and ordinary words tell of affection which is never radiant; of feeling which never prophesies, and of appreciation which is never equality; for they are always conscious of the bitter refrain, — average, average. But above it rise the solemn chords of patient resolve, quieting their hopelessness. Duty remains for them, and, as the thought sings itself into the little moods of sadness, their moan ceases, and, while gazing afar off and fondly at the great and pleasant of earth, they seek only those whom they can help by their small attempts at making things pleasant. They take, gently, the ignoring of

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