I
have taken the world and humanity as it is, and have done what I could,
without stopping to criticise or weep over shortcomings and sins. I
admire men who stand for noble impossibilities. But I have given my own
life to the doing of small possibilities. I don't say the way is the
best. But it is my way, for I am a worker, not a preacher. And just
because I have been willing to do things as the world is willing to have
them done, power and success have come to me to do more.' I believe it
was because Peter had no wish for worldly success, that it came to him."
"You are all wrong," groaned Lispenard. "I love Peter as much as I love
my own kin, with due apology to those of it who are present, but I must
say that his whole career has been the worst case of sheer, downright
luck of which I ever saw or heard."
"Luck!" exclaimed Dorothy.
"Yes, luck!" said Lispenard. "Look at it. He starts in like all the rest
of us. And Miss Luck calls him in to look at a sick kitten die. Very
ordinary occurrence that! Health-board report several hundred every
week.
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