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A minute shadowy form darted by, appearing like a dim line traced across the deep glossy more foliage, then on the lighter green foliage further away. She waved her hand in imitation of its swift, curving flight; then, dropping it, exclaimed: "Gone oh, little thing!" "What was it?" I asked, for it might have been a bird, a bird-like moth, or a bee. "Did you not see?
When we see each other again we shall meet, for our friendship has been of a fine gold which the moth and rust of years cannot corrupt. Will you give my love and say good-bye to Mr. and Mrs. Ripley and my other friends with you? and remember, as he deserves, Your friend, MILTON HILL, Midnight, July 16, '46.
By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves break through and steal. It is a fool's life, as they will find when they get to the end of it, if not before. It is said that Deucalion and Pyrrha created men by throwing stones over their heads behind them:
'In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne. Have we lost wealth? We have in Him a treasure that moth or rust cannot touch. Are our hopes blasted? 'Happy is He ... whose hope is in the Lord his God. Is our health broken? 'I shall yet praise Him, who is the health of my countenance. 'The Lord is able to give thee much more than these.
Clark sat alone, a little apart, silent save a word now and then in a low tone to Monsieur Gratiot or Captain Bowman. Here was an odd assortment of the races which had overrun the new world. At intervals some disputant would pause in his talk to kill a mosquito or fight away a moth or a June-bug, but presently the argument reached such a pitch that the mosquitoes fed undisturbed.
The poet, too, lives at the monastery gates, and on monastery ground, in a seclusion which the tidings of the sequence of his editions hardly reaches. There is no disturbing renown to be got among the cabins of the Flintshire hills. Homeward, over the verge, from other valleys, his light figure flits at nightfall, like a moth.
Butterfly," said the Rose, "the Lilac is not to blame, and the day is all the more charming for being a little later." "It is not the day that is so charming," said the Butterfly with a smirk. "But we have a few calls yet to make seventy-five or a hundred, say. Come, Moth. Au revoir, Mademoiselle," and they fluttered off.
He seems as transparent as they and is nothing but the ghost of a moth as he passes from one head of goldenrod bloom to another. Some mornings he vanishes in the amber glow that ushers in the daylight and then I think I have merely been dreaming of lepidoptera. This morning he did not appear, either in the early gray or the amber glow, and I went out to look for him.
"Tavatini is a good customer. He has money on deposit with me. He eats biscuits and beef. He might be offended and buy of the Germans." Many Pieces of Tattooing nudged Great Night Moth, and they advanced to their horses, which were tied to the store building. The madman mounted with the ease of a cowboy, and they rode off at speed.
A high, narrow door with a fan-light occupied the middle of the end before which the party stood. Windows above, with little balconies, were hung with old red woolen damask, fading out in stripes; perishing, doubtless, with moth and decay; in one was suspended a rusty bird-cage which had once been gilt.
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