The dragon was never in better health and spirits than on the morning when Perseus came down upon him. It is said that Andromeda told Perseus she had been thinking how remarkably well he was looking. He had got up quite in his usual health—and so on. When I said this to Ballard [a fellow art-student at Heatherley’s] and that other thing which I said about Andromeda in _Life and Habit_, {225} he remarked that he wished it had been so in the poets. I looked at him. “Ballard,” I said, “I also am ‘the poets.’” Self-Confidence Nothing is ever any good unless it is thwarted with self-distrust though in the main self-confident. Wandering When the inclination is not obvious, the mind meanders, or maunders, as a stream in a flat meadow. Poverty I shun it because I have found it so apt to become contagious; but I fancy my constitution is more seasoned against it now than formerly. I hope that what I have gone through may have made me immune. Pedals or Drones The discords of every age are rendered possible by being taken on a drone or pedal of cant, common form and conventionality. This drone is, as it were, the flour and suet of a plum pudding. Evasive Nature She is one long This-way-and-it-isness and, at the same time, That-way-and-it-isn’tness. She flies so like a snipe that she is hard to hit. Fashion Fashion is like God, man cannot see it in its holy of holies and live. And it is, like God, increate, springing out of nothing, yet the maker of all things—ever changing yet the same yesterday, to-day and for ever. Doctors and Clergymen A physician’s physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric’s divinity has to his power of influencing conduct. God is Love I dare say. But what a mischievous devil Love is! Common Chords If Man is the tonic and God the dominant, the Devil is certainly the sub-dominant and Woman is the relative minor. God and the Devil God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour. Sex The sexes are the first—or are among the first great experiments in the social subdivision of labour. Women If you choose to insist on the analogies and points of resemblance between men and women, they are so great that the differences seem indeed small. If, on the other hand, you are in a mood for emphasising the points of difference, you can show that men and women have hardly anything in common. And so with anything: if a man wants to make a case he can generally find a way of doing so. Offers of Marriage Women sometimes say that they have had no offers, and only wish that some one had ever proposed to them. This is not the right way to put it. What they should say is that though, like all women, they have been proposing to men all their lives, yet they grieve to remember that they have been invariably refused. Marriage i