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And so it goes on not out in the open; not press-agented; not advertised; but behind closed doors. He does not care for the stranger's presence, nor does he suffer it either unless the stranger is properly vouched for. The best theaters in Vienna are small, exclusive affairs, privately supported, and with seating capacity for a few chosen patrons.
"I will go in, then," said the girl, and hesitated, unwilling that a stranger's eyes should witness what she knew was waiting her there. "You, Sir, will perhaps abide with me," suggested Mr. Maclise to Martin, with a quick understanding of her hesitation. "Oh, thank you," cried Moira. "This is Mr. Martin from Canada, Mr. Maclise my brother's great friend. Mr.
The servant brought the dish down: he gave a look at the stranger's shabby dress, turned up his nose, and pretending to mistake, put the dish into the hand of the Dane. "Hold, lads," quoth the stranger. "If I have ears, that was meant for me." He seized the platter with both hands; and therewith the hands both of the Cornishman and of the Dane.
Weak he still was, but he made no complaint, and when others would crowd before him so that they could speak the sooner to King Arthur, he did not chide them but permitted it. At last Sir Launcelot came forward, for he had observed this and made each of them find the place which was first theirs, so that the stranger's turn came as it should.
And at table that evening the man came to know another trait in the odd little stranger's odd makeup which, coupled with those which he had already mentally tabulated for future private contemplation, set him to wondering more than a little.
Go to then, I also will bestow on him a stranger's gift, that he in turn may give a present either to the bath-woman, or to any other of the thralls within the house of godlike Odysseus. Therewith he caught up an ox's foot from the dish, where it lay, and hurled it with strong hand.
The stranger's voice at once became cordial and intimate. "I didn't know that I was speaking to a fellow-digger. How's Lampton?" "I wasn't actually digging I was doing some painting for him, and inking the pottery drawings. His latest discovery has developed amazing theories." "So I've heard. But you look a bit done up. Come inside and have a drink."
But the light falling upon a form and face that had seen more wear and tear than time, gave her no clue as to the who or what of the person before her. The stranger's hurried look round the room seemed to expect something. "Are they all gone to bed?" "All but me," said Fleda. "We have been delayed we took a wrong road we've been riding for hours to find the place hadn't the right direction."
I know that a stranger's hand will write to me next, to say that the good and faithful servant has been called at length into the joy of his Lord. And why weep for this? No fear of death will darken St. John's last hour: his mind will be unclouded, his heart will be undaunted, his hope will be sure, his faith steadfast. His own words are a pledge of this "My Master," he says, "has forewarned me.
But at the last, when he knew he was dying, he was desperately anxious you should know that he did not die a 'Stranger's death, as he said. He thought any hint of drama about his death would spoil your friendship.
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