The House with the Green Shutters

Every time he looked at the place he had a sense of triumph over what he knew in his bones to be an adverse public opinion.

Young Gourlay came staggering round the corner, "a little sprung" (as they phrase it in Barbie), but not so bad as they had hoped to see him.

have the three great essentials of commercial success—imagination to conceive schemes, common sense to correct them, and energy to push them through.

dreaming in manhood of the cities yet to rise amid Ontario's woods (they are there to witness to his foresight).

quick to attempt the realizing of his dreams.

To him there is a railway through the desert where no railway exists, and mills along the quiet stream

Imagination may consecrate the world to a man, or it may merely be a visualizing fac

ulty which sees that as already perfect which is still lying in the raw material.

The sounds of the outer world reached him in his loneliness and annoyed him, because, while wondering what they were, he dared not look out to see.

His mind was full of perceptions of which he was unconscious, till he found one of them recorded in a book, and that was the book for him