She does not miss in him that yearning after the unattainable, which in some mysterious wise fills us with a mute despair which has in it yet I know not what of sweetness amid the delirious aspirations with which it distracts us.He said that life was too short for serious study, and that every kind of pursuit should be tempered with fooling while to prevent fooling becoming wearisome it should always be dashed with something earnest, as the sodawater is dashed with brandy, or hands tape up the Government of India with Mr.Of an evening he would come over to my bungalow in a friendly way he would just drop in, as he used to say, in his pleasant offhand fashion, and he would irrigate himself with my brandy and soda, amid genial smiles and a brandishing of his long cheroot, playfully indicating his recognition of a stimulant with which he had been long acquainted.He would leave me throbbing with the eructation of oaths and the hollow aching of an empty purse, and uncertain whether to give up cards and liquor for hands tape up hymns and Government paper or whether to call him back and take fortune by storm.He returns to Government House and gives vent to his overwrought feelings in smoke Parascho cigarettes then he telegraphs himself to sleep.But if we descend hands tape up from our aesthetic heights to the lowly level of the biped Smith, we may see Mrs.Merrily shrieks the whistling engine as the Punjab comes sliding down, the round world to welcome its curled darling.I observe them with hands tape up pity and regret.People seemed to think that Ali Baba would smell sweeter under some other name.She cannot know, with her base instincts dragging her down to the hearth level of home and child, the material gracelessness of her husband, equally incapable of striking an Anglo Saxon, or a medival attitude and with his blood flushed, healthy face unable to realize in his expression that divine sorrow which can alone distinguish hands tape up the man of culture from ordinary Englishmen, or the anthropoid apes.Lollipop can hardly be called one of the Sallies of his youth.It is hands tape up straight, like a mathematical line.EXTRACTS FROM SERIOUS REFLECTIONS AND OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS.