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People talk of men's chivalry, that vague, indefinite quality which is supposed to transmute the common clay of life into gold. Chivalry is a magic word. It seems to breathe of foreign strands and moonlight groves and silver sands and knights and earls and kings; it seems to tell of glorious deeds and waving plumes and prancing steeds and belted earls and things!
The long lagoons, the deep blue bays, the glittering parti-coloured fish that swam in visible shoals deep down amidst the submerged coral groves over which we passed, the rich-toned sea-weeds and brilliant anemones, the yellow strands and the steep cliffs, the riotous foliage that swept down from the sky to the blue of the sea; all these natural beauties seemed to cry to me with living voices to me bound on a cruise of universal death.
So Ingram's violation of his confidence, he reflected, had been responsible for this interweaving of his life with Cleo's, and his presence here to-day was but the natural continuation of the beginning then made. He confessed to having been angered with Ingram. "My blundering vision could not see how the strands were being woven," he added.
O Hermon! what produced so sinister an effect by the wavering light of the lamps and torches, while the thunderstorm was rising the strands of hair, the outspread fingers, the bewildered, staring blue eyes do you not feel yourself how artificial, how unnatural it all was? This transformation was only a clever trick of acting, nothing more.
It were well to gather up these strands of suggestion from great artists and weave them into a strong bulwark of precept and example, so that the student may be kept within the narrow path of sound doctrine and high endeavor. At the very outset, two points must be borne in mind: 1. Each and every voice and mentality is individual.
They popped like cut wires on a bale of hay and it was lucky that they were tight strung so that there was no slack to take some of the force away. It was not luck, but plain shrewdness on Applehead's part, that Johnny came straight on, so that there was no tearing see-saw of the strands as they broke.
In the first place the black horizontal series of filaments does not alternate in the simplest way with the brown series, but, where a wide space of the dark color is called for, several of the brown strands are passed over at one step, as in the head and body, and in the wider interspaces the dark strands pass under two or more of the opposing strands.
Revolution comes fiercely, impetuously uprooting institutions, overthrowing traditions, tearing customs from their resting places. All is uncertainty chaos, when, lo! a man on horseback gathers the loose strands together saying, "Good people, I know, follow me!" He does know; but woe to the people who follow him! Yet, what shall they do? Whither shall they turn? How shall they act?
These strands he braided in thick ropes and tied them, knotting them and twisting and doubling once again. All the while he kept bewailing the stupid way in which he wasted time. 'Three days ago I might have quit this den, he sighed, 'had I but used the means that lay at hand. Full well I knew that heaven always finds a way to help the man who helps himself.
Only after the clock in the tower of a nearby church had struck eleven, he rose mechanically and looked around. The pungent fumes of the fumigating herbs moved along the ceiling of his low chamber in gray strands and the smoke from the candle joined the cloud above. Andrea opened the window going out to the canal, to cleanse the air.
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