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She drew her hand down his coat sleeve and let it rest like a snowflake on his a contrast in its smallness and whiteness to the great brown hand beneath. She looked at that, smiling whimsically, and he saw her smile, and reddened.

Nature makes a dead snowflake in a night, but not a living star-flower. For her best things nature asks long time. The time-principle holds equally in man's social and industrial life. To-day our colleges have their anthropological departments and our cities their museums.

Emerson knew that the sense of mystery accompanies the shift of an absorbed attention to some object which brings the mind back to the present. "There are times when the cawing of a crow, a weed, a snowflake, a boy's willow whistle, or a farmer planting in his field is more suggestive to the mind than the Yosemite gorge or the Vatican would be in another hour.

Heidi was out of her mind with delight at being among all her old friends again; she flung her arms round the pretty little Snowflake, stroked the obstreperous Greenfinch, while she herself was thrust at from all sides by the affectionate and confiding goats; and so at last she got near to where Peter was still standing, not having yet got over his surprise.

She talked incessantly, laughing now and then, but her eyes were never quiet. These skimmed the length of the corridor, then glanced over the heads crowded in the door-way. "I'll have something quite sweet, Geoffrey," she was saying to the man beside her, as she came within hearing. "You know what I like a sort of snowflake wrapped up in sugar." As she said the words her glance wandered.

But the snowflake melts; and you you will go up to the hotel as good a crystal as when you came down." This made me laugh, and we had a good laugh together, holding each other's hand. "Do you know," said he, "I must go? There is a roll of a summons that reaches my ear, and I must be at the top of the bank in one minute and a quarter. I had no leave to be here." "Hadn't you?" I said.

You should see me when I have my summer suit." "Is it so very different from this?" asked Peter. "I think your present suit is pretty enough." "Well said, Peter, well said," interrupted Snowflake. "I quite agree with you. I think Wanderer's present suit is pretty enough for any one, but it is true that his summer suit is even prettier.

I want so to see how the flowers are looking but wait " for an idea had come into Heidi's head. She ran and picked a bunch or two of green leaves, and then took hold of Snowflake and led her up to Clara. "There, now you will not be alone," said Heidi, giving the goat a little push to show her she was to lie down near Clara, which the animal quite understood.

But she had to go to bed first, and all night she slept soundly on her bed of hay, dreaming of nothing but of shining mountains with red roses all over them, among which happy little Snowflake went leaping in and out.

Soon after the Snowflake had entered the islands the storm began to abate, as if it felt that there was no chance of overwhelming the little yacht now. That night, and the greater part of the following day, a dead calm prevailed, and the schooner lay among the islands with her sails flapping idly from the yards.