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He weighed the Judge in the balance that morning, and half forgot his own woe in marveling at the discrepancies which he discovered. Self-deceit may or may not be easy of accomplishment. Maybe it is merely a matter of temperament and circumstance, after all.
A truce had already been arranged by Melmount, and these ministers, after some marveling reminiscences, set aside the matter of peace as a mere question of particular arrangements. . . . The whole scheme of the world's government had become fluid and provisional in their minds, in small details as in great, the unanalyzable tangle of wards and vestries, districts and municipalities, counties, states, boards, and nations, the interlacing, overlapping, and conflicting authorities, the felt of little interests and claims, in which an innumerable and insatiable multitude of lawyers, agents, managers, bosses, organizers lived like fleas in a dirty old coat, the web of the conflicts, jealousies, heated patchings up and jobbings apart, of the old order they flung it all on one side.
Electric bulbs lit the whole place grandly, disclosing saddles and straps and other horse gear, hung at intervals along the alley. In one of his swift visions, he now saw himself as a member of this fascinating crew, wearing, like them, long, hairy breeches, a wide hat, spurs, and a neckerchief, and setting gaily forth in a cavalcade to be admired by a marveling city!
And when Graham finally fell asleep, it was in the thick of marveling over the processes of evolution that could produce from primeval mire and dust the glowing, glorious flesh and spirit of woman. The next morning Graham learned further the ways of the Big House.
Then we pick our way through the Straits discovered by that daring Portuguese, Fernando de Magallanes, to whose memory I always drink heartily once we are clear of the Cape of the Eleven Thousand Virgins. I never pass through that gloomy defile without marveling at his courage, and thinking that he deserved a better fate than murder at the hands of some painted savage in the Philippines.
Each turned, surprised, at Isobel's defence of Jerry's right, marveling at the earnestness in her face. "Oh don't," implored Jerry. "I'm glad Ginny won it." Ginny stamped her foot. "I'm not I wish I hadn't. I never dreamed I would honest. What a mess! I wish I'd just turned and told them all about it, but I didn't have the nerve! I'm just yellow." That from Ginny Cox, the invincible forward!
I sing Schubert's "Ave Maria," or Beethoven's "Adelaida" on the piano, and all hearts tend toward me, all breasts hold their breath.... Then come luminous bombs, the banquet of this grand firework, and the cries of the public, and the flowers and the crowns that rain around the priest of harmony, shuddering on his tripod; and the young beauties, who, all in tears, in their divine confusion kiss the hem of his cloak; and the sincere homage drawn from serious minds and the feverish applause torn from many; the lofty brows that bow down, and the narrow hearts, marveling to find themselves expanding .... It is a dream, one of those golden dreams one has when one is called Liszt or Paganini."
And there were other ways. "Excellency," said Philip politely, "I have returned." "Ah!" said the Baron cordially, marveling somewhat at the forbidding glint in the young man's eyes. He was to learn presently its portent. Within doors, a few men chatted in the billiard room. A girl was singing.
And now it came to pass that there were a great multitude gathered together, of the people of Nephi, round about the temple which was in the land Bountiful; and they were marveling and wondering one with another, and were showing one to another the great and marvelous change which had taken place.
We have all more or less witnessed this phenomenon of transformation in some familiar aspect, either through love or hatred, respect or contempt, fear or admiration, until we find ourselves marveling at past impressions, received, in ignorance of the truth, in the commencement of our observations. I remember that Mr.
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