“What you have to give is taught in no college, and I am not sure but you would spoil yourself if you tried to run your mind through a set groove with hundreds of others. I never thought I should say such a thing to anyone, but I do say to you, and I honestly believe it; give up the college idea. Your mind does not need that sort of development, it is far past it. Stick close to your work in the woods. You are getting so infinitely greater on it, than the best college student I ever knew, that there is no comparison.”
“You are in college, and have been always. You are in the school of experience, and it has taught you to think, and given you a heart. God knows I envy the man who wins it! You have been in the college of the Limberlost all your life, and I never met a graduate from any other institution who could begin to compare with you in sanity, clarity, and interesting knowledge. …College be confounded! Go to work and show people what there is in you!”
“I have learned that I am just a common man. I admire beauty and beautiful clothing just as much as I ever did; but, first, I want an understanding, deep as the lowest recess of my soul, with the woman I marry. I want to work or you, to plan for you, to build you a home with every comfort, to give you all good things I can, to shield you from every evil.”
“The month which followed was a reproduction of the previous June… Everything was as it had been, with the difference that Philip was now an avowed suitor. He missed no opportunity to advance himself in Elnora’s graces. …He revelled in the privilege of loving her…”
“I must be absolutely certain, for when I say yes, and give myself to you, only death shall part us. I would not give you up. So I want just a little more time.”
“I am told the more there are the less trouble they make. The big ones take care of the little ones. We want a large family.”
“You find out what you want to do, and be, that is a man’s work in the world, and I will plan our home, with no thought save your comfort.”
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