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Sujin had copies made of the mirror and the sword, which were kept in the "place of reverence," a separate building within the palace. From this arose the imperial chapel, which still exists within the palace bounds. We speak of the "palace" of the mikado, but we must warn our readers not to associate ideas of splendor or magnificence with this word.
I touched it; it was cold. Oh! the recollection! sorrowful mirror, burning mirror, horrible mirror, to make men suffer such torments! Happy is the man whose heart forgets everything that it has contained, everything that has passed before it, everything that has looked at itself in it, or has been reflected in its affection, in its love! How I suffer!
The little harness-room was very comfortable. A white iron bed in a corner, a flat table with a mirror above it, a rocking-chair, and a sewing-machine furnished the room. "I wouldn't stand for it," she said simply; "so here I am. Come in, Mr. Le Moyne." There being but one chair, she sat on the bed. The room was littered with small garments in the making.
It seemed to me that I had never seen the still mere look more wondrously beautiful than on this day, for we had had neither wind nor rain to mar the autumn beauty of the trees, and that was doubled by the mirror of the water.
After some trouble, a mirror was fixed and signals returned, and from that time, until relief, regular communication was kept up by this means.
"Whenever the cause of discontent is taken away, the soldiers will become obedient and cheerful. All kings and princes may mirror themselves in the bad government of your Highness, and may see how they fare who try to carry on a war, while with their own hands they cut the sinews of war.
I woke up possessed with the idea, and after putting on my last really respectable waist and inquiring of myself in the mirror how in the world I expected to visit Henrietta Morgan with such a dreary trunkful of travel-worn articles, anyhow, I went down to the breakfast table with my mind made up. Henrietta left me after breakfast for a hurried trip to town. I didn't go with her.
The fair orb of Love was all that was wanted to complete his planetary state, and aloft it sprang, showing many faint, fair tracts to him, and piling huge darknesses. As if in search of something, he suddenly went from the room. 'I have intoxicated the poor boy, said the Countess, and consulted an attitude by the evening light in a mirror.
When she did so, she caught a glimpse of her arm which was as perfectly rounded as the fairest marble of Phidias. She stretched the arm to its full length that the mirror might reflect its entire beauty. Again she thought aloud: "I wish he could see my arm.
I do not pretend to describe those which express the same disposition in a gentleman." "This last symptom, dear aunt, of shunning the mirror, seems likely to be a rare occurrence amongst the fair sex." "You are a novice in toilet fashions, my dear kinsman. All women consult the looking-glass with anxiety before they go into company; but when they return home, the mirror has not the same charm.
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