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One story is an Indian Legend The Lotus Flower, Wreaths of Laurel, A Summer Night, The Humming Bird that in India! He begins with Faust thirsting for youth and ends with "the bliss of the true life," in the style of Tolstoy. I have cut out parts, polished it up, and the result is a legend of no great value, indeed, but light, and it may be read with interest.
When he looked again he saw only two dark figures, motionless. He experienced the sensation a man sometimes knows on entering a deserted chamber in the nighttime, and is aware that the things in it have just that instant stopped. His arrival puts abrupt end to some busy activity they were engaged in, which begins again the moment he goes.
They lie still enough! they will not get up again in this race, be very sure! And the rest of them, what a "tailing off"! Anybody can see who is going to win, perhaps. Thirty years. Third corner turned. Dices, bright sorrel, ridden by the fellow in a yellow jacket, begins to make play fast; is getting to be the favorite with many.
When he describes the welcome given to two strangers at the house of the lost Ulysses, by Telemachus, son of the wanderer, he begins, "When they were come within the lofty hall, he carried the spear to a tall pillar and set it in a well-worn rack." That one word, "well-worn," gives us the feeling that Homer is not making up a story, but that he has really seen the rack and noticed how it looked.
Apprehensions of danger may be felt while one is awake, but they generally vanish when slumber begins. In the morning we found ourselves safe, and were gratified to discover that our horses had been let alone. The landlord declared every thing was perfectly quiet, and had been so through the night, with the exception of a little fight at one end of the town.
She was left an orphan long since, with a brother and sister, and lives with an old grandmother, who has "brought them up to poverty," as she always calls it. However, Paulette now helps her to make bandboxes, her little sister Perrine begins to use the needle, and her brother Henry is apprentice to a printer.
I'll send a messenger for 'em. And out he goes into the rain, which begins to come down cats and dogs the moment he was in the street.
Anderson replied: "'I hope, Governor, you will never have any cause for complaint in that direction. "'No, said the Governor; 'I hope I shall not! But, said he, 'it begins to look as though we might have trouble at home. These Golden Circles are bound to give us trouble, and I fear very soon,
"But in the early spring, when the snow on the mountains begins to melt, they become raging torrents, and getting across 'em is out of the question." "How far are yonder peaks from here?" asked Sam, pointing ahead. "About twenty miles." "Gracious, as far as that! I didn't know one could see so clearly for such a long distance. They look to me to be only about three miles."
"You know, my boy, that in such a time as this if a leader and above all such a capering, high-kicking colt as you begins to mope and droop like a cab-horse in the rain, his men will soon not be worth a what?... Oh, blast the others, when you do so you're moping, and whether your men can stand it or not, I can't! what?... Well, then, for God's sake don't!
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