The Romantic Adventures Of Mr. Darby And Of Sarah His Wife (2007) - Plot & Excerpts
Darby Chapter XVIIThe Launching Of Sarah(A Retrospect) Though it had been of her own free will that she returned home, Sarah had travelled north with a heavy heart. It was a far from happy life that she was returning to, and it was only because she was flying from a still less bearable one that she had been able to persist in her determination. But this persistence was not the result of thought and conscious choice. The question of staying in London or returning home alone had not presented itself to her as a problem: her action in face of it was impulsive. She fled from idleness instinctively, because idleness for her was the worst of all ills. Work producing practical results was for her an indispensable condition of life. With Mr. Darby’s sedulous accumulation of culture for the mere sake of culture she had not the smallest sympathy; it was nothing better than self-indulgent idleness. She did not expect to be happy at home. To be alone, to have no one to work for but herself, would deprive her life of most of its meaning; but, at least, if there was honest hard work to do, life would have more meaning than it had had during the last fortnight at the Balmoral.
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