Sandys. "No
compulsion for me--the children may do as they like, live as they
like, marry whom they like. I don't believe in checking human
nature. Of course if Jack could get a Fellowship, I should like him
to settle down at Cambridge. There's a life for you! In the
forefront of the intellectual battle! It is what I should have
liked myself, of all things. To hear what is going on in the
intellectual line, to ventilate ideas, to write, to teach--that's a
fine life--to be able to hold one's own in talk and discussion--
that's where we country people fail. I have plenty of ideas, you
know, myself, but I can't put them into shape, into form, so to
speak."
"I think Jack would rather like a commercial career," said Howard.
"It's the only thing he has ever mentioned; and I am sure he might
do well if he could get an opening; he likes real things, he says."
"He does!" said Mr. Sandys enthusiastically--"that's what he always
says. Do you know, if you won't think me very vain, Howard, I
believe he gets that from me. Maud is different--she takes after
her dear mother--whose loss was so irreparable a calamity--my dear
wife was full of imagination; it was a beautiful mind. I will show
you some of her sketches when you come to see us--I am looking
forward to that--not much technique, perhaps, but a real instinct
for beauty; to be just, a little lacking in form, but full of
feeling. Well, Jack, as I was saying, likes reality.
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