They
should have it by and by.
"Once upon a time," I said, "a man went up a mountain, and stayed there
till it was dark, and stayed on. Now, a man who finds himself on a mountain
as the sun is going down, especially if he is alone, makes haste to get
down before it is dark. But this man went up when the sun was going down,
and, as I say, continued there for a good long while after it was dark. You
will want to know why. I will tell you. He wished to be alone. He hadn't a
house of his own. He never had all the time he lived. He hadn't even a room
of his own into which he could go, and bolt the door of it. True, he had
kind friends, who gave him a bed: but they were all poor people, and their
houses were small, and very likely they had large families, and he could
not always find a quiet place to go into. And I dare say, if he had had a
room, he would have been a little troubled with the children constantly
coming to find him; for however much he loved them--and no man was ever so
fond of children as he was--he needed to be left quiet sometimes. So, upon
this occasion, he went up the mountain just to be quiet. He had been all
day with a crowd of people, and he felt that it was time to be alone.
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