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"Watch!" says Sol Invictus; "I have sent my man to him." It was Julian, "the Dragon, the Apostate, the Great Mind"; I thank thee, Gregory of Nazianzus, for teaching me that word! and the one that came to him there in Cappadocia was Maximus of Smyrna, Iamblichus' disciple. His story has been told and re-told; I expect you know it fairly well.
Cloke, isn't Burnt House under High Pardons?" "Yes, my dear, of course," the soft voice answered absently. A cough. "I beg your pardon, Madam. What was it you said?" "Never mind. I prefer it the other way," Sophie laughed, and George re-told the missing chapter as she sat on the bed. "Here to-day an' gone to-morrow," said Cloke warningly. "They've paid their first month, but we've only that Mrs.
A Story Re-told. "Miss Janet Hope, To the care of Lady Chillington, Deepley Walls, near Eastbury, Midlandshire." "There, miss, I'm sure that will do famously," said Chirper, the overworked, oldish young person whose duty it was to attend to the innumerable wants of the young lady boarders of Park Hill Seminary.
Robin had done something that couldn't be counted or spurned in dollars and cents. The doctor told of Robin's sensible care and how ably she had shared with him the night's long vigil. The story was told and re-told with little embellishments and often tears; the girls in the Mill repeated each detail of it over their lunches, the men talked about it in low tones as they walked homeward.
It was one of the stories which cannot be re-told too often, full of the audacious courage of gallant youth, and the listening girls felt a vicarious pride in the daring of their countrywoman of bygone days. As for Amy, she straightened herself so as to give the effect of having grown suddenly taller. "My ancestress," she observed with fitting pride.
When questioned he did not deny it, and his evident pleasure at the mystery which surrounded him went far to establish the story. For every person interested in Gentleman Jack, a dozen were anxious to see and speak to Galloping Hermit. Every tale concerning him was recalled and re-told, losing nothing in the re-telling.
The next day we saw the commissioner in company with Mr. Brown, and re-told the story which Jackson had told previous to his death. Mr. He was not kept long in suspense, for the morning after our visit, very unexpectedly, Mr.
"You are not the only one," said my wife, looking up from the basket of work through which she had been searching for some article, "who noticed lights in the Allen House last evening." "Who else saw them?" I asked. "Mrs. Dean says she heard two or three people say that the house was lit up all over a perfect illumination." "Stories lose nothing in being re-told.
The 'Jumping Frog of Calaveras County' fired the laugh heard round the world. Like Byron, Mark Twain woke one morning to find himself famous. A classic fable, which had once evoked inextinguishable laughter in Athens, was unconsciously re-told in the language of Angel's Camp, Calaveras County, where history repeated itself with a precision of detail startling in its miraculous coincidence.
"Take, O star of all our seas, from not an alien hand, Homage paid of song bowed down before thy glory's face, Thou the living light of all our lovely stormy strand, Thou the brave north-country's very glory of glories, Grace." The story of her gallantry has been many times re-told, but never grows wearisome.
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