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But in thoroughness of research and in resolute following of the very truth through all mazes and veils that may obscure it, one group of historians does not yield to the other. And the same zealous passion for accuracy that has distinguished these and less famous historians and biographers has shown itself in other fields of intellectual endeavour.
With faltering hand do I withdraw the curtain of oblivion that veils the modest merit of our venerable ancestors, and as their figures rise to my mental vision, humble myself before their mighty shades.
Her daughters were always wrapped in veils that looked as if they were woven out of sunbeams, and their dresses shone with precious stones. The neighbours wondered where all this sudden wealth had sprung from, but nobody knew about the head. 'Good mother, said the head, one day, 'this morning you are to go to the city and ask the sultan to give me his daughter for my bride.
All the gay court dresses, the rich quaint robes of the fair ladies, helped to train the young painter's fancy for flowing draperies and wonderful veils of filmy transparent gauze. There was one fair lady especially whom Sandro loved to paint the beautiful Simonetta, as she is still called. First he painted her as Venus, who was born of the sea foam.
The veils were speedily produced, and the Princess bound her trembling companions in couples hand to hand; submitting finally to be herself tied to Lael. Then when Sergius was more substantially joined to the ancient Lysander, the household sallied forth.
"Of course I would rather have a gentleman for my private secretary. Some people would say he isn't a gentleman." The face in the glass smiled dimly, between two parted veils of hair. "What is a gentleman?" The face in the glass suggested that this was indeed a subtle and a difficult question. "It was not his business if I chose to tire myself.
A browner shadow spreads upon the air, And o'er the scene a pensive grandeur throws; The rocks the woods a wilder beauty wear, And the deep wave in softer music flows; And now the distant view where vision fails, Twilight and grey obscurity pervade; Tint following tint each dark'ning object veils, Till all the landscape sinks into the shade.
The Venetian Nuns are the merriest in all Europe, and have a not much better Repute than the Monks, many of them being the Daughters of the Nobility, who dispose of 'em in this manner to save the Charges of keeping 'em at home. They wear no Veils; have their Necks uncovered; and receive the Addresses of Suitors at the Grates of their Parlours.
From my window I can look over the garden wall into the street, and see them hurrying along, raising their hats, shaking hands, and crowding in front of the latest bulletin. I see women and girls, dressed coquettishly, tripping along with pride shining in their eyes, beside men whom a cross on the breast brands as murderers. I see widows in long black veils still patient.
"What caused it? Something must have happened?" "Don't worry me now. Only help me to get home." Screened both by veils and parasols, the two had almost gained the street, when they met a trio of gentlemen. One asked in unmistakable New-England English: "Laurance, where is your father?"
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