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"Well, sir, there's nothin' agin' the neighbourhood. They be's a little noisy, by times; you can't expect they wouldn't; now the sun's warm in the streets and the children gets out o' their holes and corners. I sometimes think, what a mercy it is the sun shines! and specially to them as hain't no fire or next to none. I often think the Lord's more merciful than what men is."
"Ah, signor padrone!" he said gratefully, "she will be so delighted. It is so very good of you." We hailed a hansom and drove across Westminster Bridge to the address he gave a gloomy back street off the York Road, one of those narrow, grimy thoroughfares into which the sun never shines.
The last is absolute knowledge founded upon the identity of the knowing mind with the known object." And Eckhardt, the German mystic, has told his pupils that: "God is the soul of all things. He is the light that shines in us when the veil is rent."
Everything else in the hall grows dim, while one clear ray of light falls from the dome straight upon the Grail, and the red blood that is in it shines through the crystal of the goblet as if it were a light itself. "A feeling of peace and gladness comes upon all, even upon the King. But now the Grail grows dimmer. The boys cover it again and the old light comes slowly back into the hall.
Already that day exists for us, shines in on us at unawares, but the path of science and of letters is not the way into nature. The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector or the antiquary. "Ne te quaesiveris extra."
I am like a comet, she is like the sun steady, steady, round and round, with plenty of sleep and the comfortable darkness. Sometimes madame goes hard; so does the sun in summer-shines, shines, shines like a furnace.
Of these alternatives the Sutra disposes by declaring that the Person within the eye is the highest Self. For the text goes on to say about the Person seen within the eye, 'They call him Samyadvama, for all blessings go towards him. He is also Vamani, for he leads all blessings. He is also Bhamani, for he shines in all worlds. And all these attributes can be reconciled with the highest Self only.
"How will I know the high peak when I see it?" asked Jack. "You can hardly mistake it," Mr. Tevis remarked. "But you can be sure of it, because, just at sunset, you will see it envelop in a golden glow. That is what gives the name to the mountain range. It seems there is a mass of quartz on top of the peak, and the sun, reflecting from it just before it sets, shines as if from burnished gold.
His simplicity in this touched me; it was pathetic. "How know you I am a gentleman, Captain Paul?" I asked curiously. "I should lack discernment, sir," he retorted, with some heat, "if I could not see as much. Breeding shines through sack-cloth, sir. Besides," he continued, in a milder tone, "the look of you is candour itself.
"Understand that, Bel?" he asked. "I don't know but it means something. Maybe it doesn't not a thing! And again, there is a chance only the merest possibility that it does. We'll risk it, Bel, and to begin on I have nailed it as hard as I knew how. Next, we will clean the house until it shines, and then we will fill the cupboard, and if anything does happen we won't be caught napping.
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