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Honest Ted's pound was a loan, of course, and like any other honourable man I should naturally repay the loan! Musing in this wise I turned away from the evening star, and walked very slowly past the dairy and the wash-house to my own little room.
I am your husband. Did you ever say, 'Heavens, there you are, the woman of all the world, the rising and the setting sun, the star that shines, the garden where all the flowers of love grow'? Did you ever do that? But no, there was only one person in the world there was only you, Jean Jacques. You were the only pig in the sty."
Then the torture began again. It was always worse towards evening an agony of longing, regret, fury, vague jealousy and desire. He stood and looked out of the window again at the crowd, hurrying along now to their pleasures or their happy homes. So many people in the world, like stars in the sky why want the one star only? Why cry for the moon?
I gazed and gazed; between the star and its ring I caught the infinite depth of black space beyond; I seemed to see almost the whirl, the motion; to hear the morning stars sing together and then like a flash it was gone. Crane my neck on my ladder as I might I could not get sight of it. "But where did she go?" I said, half to myself. Far down in the darkness came the old professor's deep voice:
Poor Mr Thorne put the child down quietly on the ground, and drew back his chair; Mr Slope, who had returned to the pole star that attracted him, laughed aloud; Mr Arabin winced and shut his eyes; and the signora pretended not to hear her daughter. 'Go to Aunt Charlotte, lovey, said the mamma, 'and ask her it if is not time for you to go out.
From this time forth Jane's ear listened only to the music of a happy heart, and her eye saw nothing but the beauty of that vision which shone in her pure bosom like the star of evening in some limpid current that glides smoothly between rustic meadows, on whose green banks the heart is charmed into happiness by the distant hum of pastoral life.
Bah! his dagger! he can only kill me once, after all. Come, then, courage! courage! Croustillac! and above all do not deliberate this brings you sorrow; you never commit greater stupidities or more tremendous mistakes than when you deliberate. Commend yourself to your lucky star, shut your eyes, as usual, and go ahead.
"They don't hit because they each keep their own orbit," said Barry, "and they obey the laws of their existence." "Orbut," enquired McCuaig. "What's that?" "The trail that each star follows," said Barry. "I see," said McCuaig, "each one keeps its own trail, its own orbut, and so there's peace up there. And I guess there'd be peace down here if folks did the same thing.
The Wise Men saw the star once more, and followed it to Bethlehem, where it stood over the stable in which Our Lord lay. They entered, and adored the Infant Jesus, and offered Him presents. Now, Herod told them to come back after they had found the newborn King, and tell him where He was, that he too might go and adore Him. But such was not Herod's real intention.
But when Keats calls Mercury "the star of Lethe," the word "star" makes us see him as the poor ghosts do who are awaiting his convoy, while the word "Lethe" intensifies our sympathy by making us feel his coming as they do who are longing to drink of forgetfulness.
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