something like remorse, and find the burden a great one. For it
happened that, through some sudden, incomprehensible petulance there
had been an angry childish gesture, and a slighting word, at the very
moment of her departure, actually for the last time. Remembering
this [42] he would ever afterwards pray to be saved from offences
against his own affections; the thought of that marred parting having
peculiar bitterness for one, who set so much store, both by principle
and habit, on the sentiment of home.

NOTES

32. *[Transliteration:] E aporroe tou kallous. +Translation:
"Emanation from a thing of beauty."



CHAPTER IV: THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE

O mare! O littus! verum secretumque Mouseion,+
quam multa invenitis, quam multa dictatis!
Pliny's Letters.

[43] IT would hardly have been possible to feel more seriously than
did Marius in those grave years of his early life. But the death of
his mother turned seriousness of feeling into a matter of the
intelligence: it made him a questioner; and, by bringing into full
evidence to him the force of his affections and the probable
importance of their place in his future, developed in him generally
the more human and earthly elements of character. A singularly
virile consciousness of the realities of life pronounced itself in