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"Defeat furnishes good material
to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of
the conquered apply to _us._"
They were all looking at the bronze and Ernestine looked from one face to
another, trying to understand why it moved none of them as it had her.
Karl's face was very purposeful tonight, reflecting the stimulus of his
talk with his friend. Filled with enthusiasm for this fight he was
making, he had no eye in this hour for the triumph of the vanquished.
"Why I don't want to submit," he laughed just then. "I want to win!"
"An idea which has done a great deal of harm," observed Dr. Parkman.
"That 'you'll-get-your-reward-somewhere-else' doctrine is the worst
possible armour for life. The poets, of course, have always coddled the
weak, but I see more poetry in the to-hell-with-defeat spirit myself."
That too she could understand--a simple matter of the arrogance of the
successful.
And with Georgia it was that thing of "getting there"--the world's hard
and fast standards of success and failure.


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