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Soon after this the American's head began to bob till the chin rested on the chest, and he forgot the quest of water in the fairyland of dreams. But B.-P. could not sleep, and those keen eyes of his were ranging the desolate country every dreary minute of that ride. And at last he noticed on the ground certain marks which he knew to be those of a buck that had scratched in the sand for water.
I should like you well enough to linger with me on the river till the storm is over, and watch the marvellous sunsets that flood the western sky with colors of green and gold which no painter's brush ever matched; and when night has dropped the curtain, to see the lights flashing forth from the tall buildings in story after story until it is as if the fairyland of our childhood's dreams lay there upon the brooding waters within grasp of mortal hands.
Here I was delighted to find the greatest treasure that my imagination had ever pictured, a work that I had thought of almost as belonging to fairyland. And here it was right before my eyes four enormous volumes, "Mécanique Céleste, by the Marquis de Laplace, Peer of France; translated by Nathaniel Bowditch, LL. D., Member of the Royal Societies of London, Edinburg, and Dublin."
"Grandfather!" shrieked Essper; "what a wonderful grandfather yours must have been! All my tricks are fresh from Fairyland this morning. Grandfather, indeed! Pray, is this your grandfather?" and here the conjuror, leaning over the table, with a rapid catch drew out from the fat paunch of the judge a long grinning wooden figure, with great staring eyes, and the parrot nose of a pulcinello.
Below, the valley with its lake and river picked out in rose and gold against the shadowy greens of field and forest, seemed like some enchanted fairyland of loveliness. And all this was in David's violin, and all this, too, was on David's uplifted, rapturous face. As the last rose-glow turned to gray and the last strain quivered into silence, the man spoke.
And, indeed, it now occurred to him that he must be indebted to his tailor for quite a large amount. Although his horror of debts was far above the average, he never realised the conception "money" as ordinary people realise it. So far as it figured in his thoughts at all, money was a gorgeous, poetic unit the treasure of romance, the gold and silver of fairyland.
Close under this mighty shadow a bit of fairyland by the dwelling of evil genii are sunny little lawns, peach-groves, orchards, and terraced gardens overlooking the river; beyond, fertile fields, and here and there, perched on the crags, some quaint village or ruined chateau. The road is bordered for the most part with walnut-trees, affording rich foliage and delicious shadow.
Glynn," exclaimed Ailie, looking round and heaving a deep sigh; "I've been away far, far away you can't believe how far." "Away, Ailie! Where have you been?" asked Glynn, patting the child's head as he leaned over the gunwale beside her. "In Fairyland. Up in the clouds yonder. Out and in, and up and down. Oh, you've no idea. Just look."
"You look like a stranger here," he went on, in milder accents "a sort of elf who has lost her way out of fairyland! Is anyone with you?" "Yes," she answered, quickly "Miss Leigh " "Miss Leigh? Who is she? Your aunt or your chaperone?" She was more at her ease now, and laughed at his quick, brusque manner of speech.
It was the first time a woman had been seen to rise boldly into the air surrounded by fireworks, and she appeared as if sailing in a chariot of fire at an immense height. I imagined myself in fairyland. The whole of the garden which their Majesties traversed presented a view of which it is impossible to give an idea.
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