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"That's a sharp little brat of the miller's," said he, alluding to Jan. "And he ain't much like the others. Old-fashioned, too. Children mostly likes the gay picters, and worrits their mothers for 'em, bless 'em! But he picked out an ancient-looking thing, came from a bankrupt pawnshop, my dear, in a lot. I almost think I let it go too cheap; but that's my failing.
At first sight, one might have thought that this pretty service was rendered only from loving sentiments of loyalty to one's ancestors, for under the great live-oaks, the sturdy brick walls about the family burying-places and the gravestones themselves were moss-grown and ancient-looking; yet here and there the wounded look of the earth appealed to the eye, and betrayed a new-made grave.
An ancient-looking apothecary, with an old "Rebel bushwhacker" and a painter out of work who "loafed" of evenings in, or in front of, the corner apothecary shop, had stood gap-mouthed at these recitations until the mine of wonders had been to the last grain exhausted. Still, excitement must be procured for them.
The trees where I had sought shelter were old, and grew here and there, singly or in scattered groups: it was a pretty wilderness of mingled tree, shrub and flower. I was surprised to find here some very large and ancient-looking fig-trees, and numbers of wasps and flies were busy feeding on a few over-ripe figs on the higher branches.
"Christian," he said, "I have sat under the shade of this palm all the days of my life, and shall recline here till God summons me hence." "How old are the longest-lived palms?" I returned. "More than the ages of three old men's lives," observed the Sheikh. An old slave, as ancient-looking as his master, now brought a basket of dates, they were every one of them larger than our largest walnuts.
He got tired by one o'clock, and sat down upon a chair and looked at it all glistening as it was spread out on the dresser and shelves some bright with polishing, some dull and dead and ancient-looking. Cups and bowls and salvers and round dishes covered with coats of arms; some battered and bent, and some as perfect as on the day it left the goldsmith's hands.
I had to make many sketches of them for further use, and succeeded in finding a whole "bag" at Dhibban. We embarked in an ancient-looking stern paddler named Shushan. As we had to camp out in a somewhat rough-and-ready way, with not a little discomfort owing to a spell of very cold weather, Brown insisted on referring to her as Shushan the Palace.
As I passed under what appeared to be a railroad bridge I inquired in Welsh of an ancient-looking man, in coaly habiliments, if it was one. He answered in the same language that it was, then instantly added in English: "You have taken your last farewell of Wales, sir; it's no use speaking Welsh farther on."
"It seems as if nothing had happened," he said, as they walked through the spring night. "People are asleep as usual, and there is an odor of summer in the dark." Von Stinnes silently directed their way. After a half-hour's walk he paused in front of an ancient-looking building. "We are in Schwabbing now," he said, "the rendezvous of the Welt Anschauers. I think this place is still open."
On a very ancient-looking black oak stand cupboard below and shelves above was ranged a vast assortment of crockery ware, and on the walls hung potbellied metal jugs and cans which shone like silver. Two doors led to the other rooms of the house, one of them wide open. One corner of the room was occupied by a great wooden bin eight feet square, filled with dried bracken.
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