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He probably knows, having once been six years old himself, that all boys of that age are horrid little beasts. He also knows he distinctly says so in the pastoral quoted by Lalage that the charm of maidenhood is a delicate thing, comparable to the bloom on a peach or the gloss on a butterfly's wings.
Smedley has just called: tell Sneyd we think him very pleasing. I enclose the "Butterfly's Ball" for Sophy, and a letter to the King written by Dr. Holland when six years old: his father found him going with it to the post. Give it to Aunt Mary. This letter was an offer from Master Holland to raise a regiment.
"Of all the mean things that ever was the pokiest long time in unwrapping its wings, this butterfly's the meanest." There was once an excessively mighty King, Barradin the Great, who died, leaving no sons or daughters, or any relation on the face of the earth, to inherit his crown. So his throne, at the time of which I write, was vacant. This mighty King had been of a very peculiar disposition.
"If we hurry out he will not yet be awake." "I have been confined here in this dungeon so long that I fear I have forgotten how to walk," said the princess. "Never mind," replied the prince. "My butterfly will bear you upon his wings." With the lovely princess borne safely upon the butterfly's wings the prince swiftly escaped from the land of the giants.
And I walked along, thinking of what I had just witnessed; sensing its time value. To those slight and fragile things which had, for John Flint, outweighed the scales of evil a gray moth, a butterfly's wing, a bird's nest I added a child's fair hair, and a rag doll that was going to sleep with its ma.
'And we sit over the fire instead. 'Oh! but should we ever not care for a dear, delightful Christmas- tree? 'If we had each other instead. 'Then we would all go still together! 'And tell our little boys and girls all about this one, and the Butterfly's Ball! 'Perhaps our husbands would want us, and not let us go. 'Oh! I don't want a husband. He'd be in the way.
"Of course he didn't mean it," said Annabel, whose cheeks were now very red. "Of course I mean it," Harry declared. "That's why I keep away from your house. I am bound to stay single." "Did you ever see a fairy going to mill on a butterfly's back?" Bim asked, looking at Harry. "Not as I remember," he answered. "If you had, you wouldn't expect us to believe it," Bim asserted.
Let not the balance of your understanding be so upset by ephemeral childishness as to fancy that it matters much whether you break an egg top or bottom, because Gulliver's two nations went to war about it; or that it matters much whether your queen is called queen of India or empress, because two parties made a noise about it, and the country has wasted ten thousand square miles of good paper on the subject, trivial as the dust on a butterfly's wing.
"No. I want you to say it every time I see you." "Good night an' happy dreams." "Will!" Mavis' voice was full of reproach. "Are you going without kissing the baby?" Then Dale came back from the doorway, stooped again, and making his lips as light as a butterfly's wings, kissed his first-born.
But what did the caterpillar eat before our cabbages supplied him with copious provender? Obviously the Pieris did not wait for the advent of man and his horticultural works in order to take part in the joys of life. She lived without us and would have continued to live without us. A Butterfly's existence is not subject to ours, but rightfully independent of our aid.
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