G K Chesterton

Magic G K Chesterton

Book Excerpt: ...> DOCTOR speaks. DOCTOR. Miss Carleon is walking about the grounds, I think.[MORRIS goes to the garden doors and looks out. MORRIS. It's a mighty chilly night to choose. Does my sister commonly select such evenings to take the air--and the damp?DOCTOR. [After a pause.] If I may say so, I quite agree with you. I have often taken the liberty of warning your sister against going out in all weathers like this. DUKE. [Expansively waving his hands about.] The artist temperament! What I always call the artistic temperament! Wordsworth, you know, and all that.[Silence. MORRIS. [Staring.] All what?DUKE. [Continuing to lecture with enthusiasm.] Why, everything's temperament, you know! It's her temperament to see the fairies. It's my temperament not to see the fairies. Why, I've walked all round the grounds twenty times and never saw a fairy. Well, it's like that about this wizard or whatever she ca...