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But the story told by the majestic continuous forests of the south creates a very different impression. No tree in the forest is more enduringly established in concordance with both climate and soil.
It held in reserve in a palace the principal machinery of the constitution, Royalty; and the day when the work is accomplished, it puts the king in his place, and says to him, "Be free and reign." One thing only dishonours this majestic interregnum of the nation the temporary captivity of the king and his family.
League after league, and still league after league, it pours its chocolate tide along, between its solid forest walls, its almost untenanted shores, with seldom a sail or a moving object of any kind to disturb the surface and break the monotony of the blank, watery solitude; and so the day goes, the night comes, and again the day and still the same, night after night and day after day majestic, unchanging sameness of serenity, repose, tranquillity, lethargy, vacancy symbol of eternity, realization of the heaven pictured by priest and prophet, and longed for by the good and thoughtless!
The leaves of the palmetto are also used, when perfect, in the manufacture of hats, baskets and mats, and for many other purposes. But its stately and majestic cousin, the date-palm of the East, with its tall, slender stalk and magnificent crown of feathery leaves, has had its praises sung in every age and clime.
At first, she read to please her humble friend; but soon her own earnest nature threw out its tendrils, and wound itself around the majestic book; and Eva loved it, because it woke in her strange yearnings, and strong, dim emotions, such as impassioned, imaginative children love to feel.
Making a call at Oldclough, he found his august relative in a very majestic mood, and she applied to him again for information. "Perhaps," she said, "you may be able to tell me whether it is true that Belinda Bassett Belinda Bassett," with emphasis, "has been invited by Mr. Burmistone to assist him to receive his guests." "Yes, it is true," was the reply: "I think I advised it myself.
Westgate gave a little shrug. "I think it is pleasanter than London." But the duchess's eyes were absent again; she was looking very fixedly at Bessie. In a moment she slowly rose, walked to a chair that stood empty at the young girl's right hand, and silently seated herself. As she was a majestic, voluminous woman, this little transaction had, inevitably, an air of somewhat impressive intention.
She was tall, slim, and graceful, a real daughter of Tyrol. Her naturally majestic carriage in no way impaired the grace of her movements; her neck rising elegantly and distinctly from her shoulders gave expression to every attitude. The woman was perceptible beneath the queen, the tenderness of heart was not lost in the elevation of her destiny.
Rising, tremendous in its last revolt, its majestic diapason was deepened by the boom of grinding rock and the detonation of boulders reduced to powder.
As when the pleading message was sent to Him: 'He whom Thou lovest is sick, He abode still two days in the same place where He was'; because He loved Lazarus and Martha and Mary; and just as when Jairus is hurrying Him to the bed where his child lies dead, He pauses on the way to attend to the petition of another sufferer; so, in like calmness of majestic leisure, He here puts aside the apparently pressing and urgent necessity in order to deal with a far deeper, more pressing one.
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