sports of the body;
and the sedentary sit down to chess or conversation. All sluggish and
pacific pleasures areto the same degreesolitary and selfish; and every
durable band between human beings is founded in or heightened by
some element of competition. Nowthe relation that has the least root
in matter is undoubtedly that airy one of friendship; and henceI suppose
it is that good talk most commonly arises among friends. Talk is
indeedboth the scene and instrument of friendship. It is in talk alone
that the friends can measure strengthand enjoy that amicable counter-
assertion of personality which is the gauge of relations and the sport of
life.
A good talk is not to be had for the asking. Humours must first be
accorded in a kind of overture or prologue; hourcompany and
circumstance be suited; and thenat a fit juncturethe subjectthe quarry
of two heated mindsspring up like a deer out of the wood. Not that
the talker has any of the hunter's pridethough he has all and more than
all his ardour. The genuine artist follows the stream of conversation as
an angler follows the windings of a brooknot dallying where he fails to
kill.
He trusts implicitly to hazard; and he i
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