And this was because
nothing could satisfy me but the perfect type of expression which not
even Leonardo nor any other painter in the world had found--the true
Romantic type.'
'I understand you, Mr. Wilderspin,' I said. 'This I perfect type of
expression you eventually found--'
'In the daughter,' said Cyril, 'of the goddess Gudgeon.'
'By the blessing of Mary Wilderspin in heaven,' said Wilderspin.
And then the talk between the two friends ran upon artistic matters,
and I heard no more, for my mind was wandering up and down the London
streets.
Wilderspin and I left the house together. As we walked along, side by
side, I said to him: 'You spoke just now of your mother's blessing.
Am I really to understand that you in an age like this believe in the
power of human blessings and human curses?'
'Do I believe in blessings and curses, Mr. Aylwin?' said Wilderspin
solemnly. 'You are asking me whether I am with or without what your
sublime father calls the "most powerful of the primary instincts of
man." He tells us in _The Veiled Queen_ that "Even in this material
age of ours there is not a single soul that does not in its inner
depths acknowledge the power of the unseen world.
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