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This is the desire of all noble natures; this is today the teaching for the East and for the West; therefore the East and the West will understand each other and reverence each other, and embrace like long-parted lovers who have found each other. There is one God; mankind is one; the foundations of religion are one.
There is not only the greeting of long-parted friends and acquaintances in the same walks of life, but, among the different divisions which the nature of the service generally threw a good deal together, there was not so much as a mule or a donkey that was not known to each individual, and its absence noticed; nor a scamp of a boy, or a common Portuguese trull, who was not as particularly inquired after, as if the fate of the campaign depended on their presence.
She glanced within at the heavy-curtained bed, and then at the fair, girlish portrait which peered through the folds at its foot the painted eyes, eternally young, seeming to keep watch smilingly. The old man and his long-parted wife, to be together again "within a week." It was strange strange. "His sons should be sent for," hinted the doctor. "Mr.
"Truly do I, Alice." And as the two long-parted lovers looked deep into each other's eyes there needed no further speech to show that the long winter was over and the time of the singing of birds had come. Two weeks from the arrival of the Anne all Plymouth put on festal gear and merry faces.
Aaron was puzzled to know how long-parted friends could embrace, when it was suggested that the quills could be depressed or elevated at pleasure. The next morning boded rain; but we had become thoroughly sated with the delights of our present quarters, outside and in, and packed up our traps to leave.
And the father knelt down beside him. Wife and friend walked softly away. In the solemn moment when these two long-parted souls met again there was no other love that could inter-meddle. "My dear father forgive me!" Then the laird kissed his recovered son, and said tenderly, "Son Colin, you are all I have, and all I have is yours." "Father, my wife and son."
So he tried to soothe his wife a little with softer words, though even these seemed somewhat foreign to his lips, after so many long-parted years. "I did not mean to pain you thus deeply, Sybilla. I do not say that you have ceased to love me!"
I was for shaking hands with Lancelot, too, but he would not hear of it. He would walk home with me, he said; he could not lose me so soon after finding me again. So we issued out of the Noble Rose together, arm-in-arm, in very happy mind. We walked for a few paces in silence, the sweet silence that often falls upon long-parted friends when their hearts are too full for parley.
Yet he shuddered, too, to think what might happen if it was all true, and discovery or reunion should shake to the centre the very life of the two long-parted ones. He saw the look of perplexed pain and joy at once in the face of the old man, but he said nothing, and he was almost glad when the bell stopped. The old man turned to him. "What is it?" he said.
Aaron was puzzled to know how long-parted friends could embrace, when it was suggested that the quills could be depressed or elevated at pleasure. The next morning boded rain; but we had become thoroughly sated with the delights of our present quarters, outside and in, and packed up our traps to leave.
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