South Wind. Norman Douglas Douglas

this neurasthenic gadding and getting. They focus themselves anew and regain their lost dignity. That ancient individualistic tone reasserts itself. Man becomes a personality once more—"

      He continued for some time in this prophetic strain, the bishop listening with considerable approbation though, at a certain point of the discourse, he would have liked to drop a word about Thermopylae and Marathon. He also knew something of the evils of Northern industrialism—how it stunts the body and warps the mind.

      "What a charming dreamer!" he thought.

      It was rather convenient for the Count to be able to pass, just then, for a dreamer.

      As a matter of fact, he was an extremely practical old gentleman.