' The prayer 'Forgive them' was the prayer not of the
Priest, but of the God. The prayer dictated to the Disciples was
'Forgive us,' 'Deliver us.' Not that he should be braver, not that
he should be stronger than they that press behind him, is needed of
the leader, but that he should know the way. He, too, may faint,
he, too, may fall; only he alone must never turn his back."
"It is quite comprehensible, looked at from one point of view,"
remarked the Minor Poet, "that he who gives most to others should
himself be weak. The professional athlete pays, I believe, the
price of central weakness. It is a theory of mine that the
charming, delightful people one meets with in society are people who
have dishonestly kept to themselves gifts entrusted to them by
Nature for the benefit of the whole community. Your conscientious,
hard-working humorist is in private life a dull dog. The dishonest
trustee of laughter, on the other hand, robbing the world of wit
bestowed upon him for public purposes, becomes a brilliant
conversationalist."
"But," added the Minor Poet, turning to me, "you were speaking of a
man named Longrush, a great talker.
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