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I have known of strange vanishings in war, but never have I known one in the least like Gaston Cheverny's. Regnard Cheverny seemed to have vanished, too, but his disappearance was entirely voluntary. The only communication which was received from him was to his agent.
These good hours were too rare in their appearances and swift in their vanishings to warrant the certainty that she would feel the same this afternoon, and Michael tried to turn the subject. "Ah, we shall have to think about that, mother," he said. "Look, there is a quarrel going on between those two sparrows. They both want the same straw." She followed his pointing finger, easily diverted.
The trouble was that no one could be prepared for these vanishings, not even herself. Perhaps a dinner company of invited guests were eagerly listening to her conversation, when at some suggestion of a new train of ideas, she would suddenly become silent and hardly speak again.
Bean had sometimes a hurt suspicion that his father knew more than he cared to tell about these vanishings. But Skipper had stayed and had not howled. Buffeted wastrel of a thousand casual amours, soft-haired, confiding, ungainly, he was rich in understanding if not in beauty. And yet he must be left.
Those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings, Blank misgivings High instincts before which our moral nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised. Wordsworth. "Vera, are you not coming to look at it?" "Presently." "It is all laid out on your bed, and you ought to try it on; it might want alterations." "Oh, there is plenty of time!"
Its wonderful, I almost said its spiritual, beauty, its sudden vanishings and returnings, its spectral, evanescent character why, it startles and awes one as if it were the draperies around the throne of the Eternal. And then his mixed metaphor the Hyperborean gods turned farmers and busy at burning brush, then a fiery worm, and then the burning wood-lots!
But the Hindus divide the periodical appearances and vanishings into days and nights of Brahma. The nights, or withdrawals of the objective universe, are called Pralayas, and the days, or epochs of new awakening into life and light, are called Manvantaras, Yugas, or "centuries of the gods." These periods are also called, respectively, the inbreathings and outbreathings of Brahma.
What shall be the feelings, what the song of the redeemed, as all this bursts on their enraptured gaze! Oh, blind discoursers are we of such ineffable glory! Children-dreamers are we about this as yet unrevealed vision! What are all our thoughts but "fallings from us, vanishings" from "creatures walking among worlds not realised!"
If I am to seek for "intimations of immortality," let me find them not in the haphazard freaks of disembodied intelligence, but where Wordsworth found them, and where Mr. Myers was once content to find them, in Those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings!
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