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The flash of steel spread terror throughout the streets of the city. 'What steel! alack, what steel! Such were the bewildered cries the citizens raised. The firmness of manhood and of youth gave way at sight of the steel; and the steel paralyzed the wisdom of graybeards.
I was astounded at the decay of the faculties in other people. These men in spectacles, these women with their sense of smell deadened by snuff, these premature graybeards, deaf and gouty before their time, were painful to behold.
This is the day of smiling, and faces stern and drear, on which few smiles beguiling are seen throughout the year, are lighted up with pleasure and eyes are soft today, and old men trip a measure with children in their play. And graybeards laugh when pelted with snow by springalds flung, and frozen hearts are melted, and ancient hearts are young.
"He is no man that he should talk to men and graybeards!" He waited calmly till the uproar died down. "Thou hast a wife, Ugh-Gluk," he said, "and for her dost thou speak. And thou, too, Massuk, a mother also, and for them dost thou speak. My mother has no one, save me; wherefore I speak.
Words that Gregory Goodloe had spoken to me out under the old graybeards were the weapon used. "With your hand in mine I can make this whole community see and know; separated from you " In all humility I now understood what he meant. And in all the weeks in which he and I had worked together Gregory Goodloe had given me not one single personal word or look.
Then he pointed his finger to two long rows of sallow faces, surmounted by golden halos, which two lamps suspended from the ceiling illuminated with a mysterious light. Like a general enumerating his troops, he said: "Look at these graybeards. That is Isaac, this Jeremiah, and this Ezekiel. On the other side are the holy warrior martyrs. Then St. Procopius, there St.
She smiled pathetically and shook her head, put up her lips to be kissed, then said as they parted: "I promise not to be angry if you will only show me the way that in the end will lead me to ancient graybeards like you and Graham."
What! is it possible that you are the Clarence Glyndon of whose career such glowing hopes are entertained, you the man whose genius has been extolled by all the graybeards? Not a boy turned out from a village school but would laugh you to scorn.
The same strange joy at having told him her secret and released the tension was being relived again in knowing that she was to leave the tangle with the Gorgeous Girl in command of it, and go live her commercial nun's existence in the offices of unromantic old graybeards who merely thought of her as a mighty clever woman who would not demand an assistant.
I see myself with him in the hush of the golden noon, reclined by the spray of cool fountains, now listening to cymbals and lutes, now arguing with graybeards on secrets bequeathed by the Chaldees, with him, with him in moonlit nights, stealing into the sepulchres of mythical kings.
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