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But mankind in general has persisted in holding to a different notion, and since the sun declines to shine upon us during all the hours of the twenty-four, and we insist upon cutting the night short at one end, we have had to devise substitutes for the sunlight. Of course the sunlight does not always leave us in unbroken darkness.
And Beauty is a form of Genius, is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or spring-time, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has its divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it. You smile? Ah! when you have lost it you won't smile.
At the base of the rock shelf, something glinted in the sunlight. He leaped down, and thrust his hand into a small crevice in the rock. His hand closed on a small metal object. It was a gun. It felt well balanced, familiar in his hand ... the revolver Dad had always carried in his gun case. He had to let them know.
"You will marry your lover," he smiled. "With him you will walk the way of sunlight and of shadow." And the girl, looking up into the strong, calm face, knew that it would be so, that the power of resisting her Better Self had passed away from her for ever. "Now," said the stranger, "come to the door with me. Leave-takings are but wasted sadness. Let me pass out quietly.
He had had so many dreams; lying under the crepe-myrtle bush at the end of the overgrown garden he had passed the long Virginia afternoons, thinking, while the dryflies whizzed sleepily in the sunlight, of the world he would live in when he grew up.
Honestly, I was not aware of it, Arthur. And this this change, I own, is infinitely harder to bear. It would be an outrage on common sense and on all that we hold seemly and and sacred in life, even in some trumpery story. You do, you must see all that, Arthur? 'Oh yes, said Lawford, narrowing his eyes to pierce through the sunlight, 'I see all that. 'Then we need not go over it all again.
Furthermore, there are advantages in building cribs apart from the kitchen and in the open, facing the east; for when the oxen are taken over to them on early winter mornings in clear weather, their coats get sleeker as they take their fodder in the sunlight.
How familiar he used to be with all their moods moods sombre and gladsome as now they were capped with mist, now radiant in sunlight, their sweeps dappled with cloud shadows, moving or motionless, or white in the broad eye of day. Thus it was, within the distance of a half-mile walk, his past life, like an open scroll, lay before him; and he remarked to Mr.
And nothing could have been gayer than that sonorous melody resounding in the broad blue heavens above the gluttonous town, which had at last lunched, and was now comfortably digesting as it strolled about in the sunlight.
Round them flutter innumerable butterflies in gaudy colours. On the border between sunlight and shade scream droll parrots, and busy pigeons steer their way among the trees on rustling wings. There humming-birds dart like arrows through the air. They are small, dainty birds with breast, neck, and head shining like metal with the brightest, most vivid colouring.
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