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Updated: June 12, 2025
After this the clerk condescended to retire into the unknown antres behind the shop, to deliver my message. I began to think that George Sheldon's card was not the best possible letter of introduction. The clerk returned presently, followed by a tall, white-bearded man, with a bent figure, and a pair of penetrating gray eyes a very promising specimen of the octogenarian.
So she followed the old road, along which her sisters had tramped from immemorial time, and would still tramp through the generations to come, when her journey was ended and the wonderful country of man's love explored its oases visited, its antres endured. Now Sabina played priestess to the Spinning Machine a monster reared above her, stupendous and insatiable.
"Of antres vast, and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders" told by Othello to Desdemona. In the other we class such accounts as those of France and of Paris, of the Frisians, Flanders, Scotland, and Iceland.
It is less perfectly lighted than some others, and there is something forbidding in the general tone of the room. There are prim portraits of queens and princes, monks in contemplation, and holy people in antres vast and deserts idle.
But the agent of the Lady-of-the-Lake was not distinguished for enthusiasm of that sort, and he turned into his berth having no oyster-supper to eat at a very early hour, and betook himself to dreaming not "of antres vast and desarts idle," or of what is sublime and glorious in creation, but of piston-rods and safety-valves pence and passengers.
The track of his wanderings laced the globe. He loved "the antres vast and deserts idle," and he had the FLAIR, the houndscent, as it were, to find the hearts of strange peoples.
Julian died in 363, on the 26th of June; and within a couple of years, you may say, many said so then, the Gods began to avenge him. Nature herself took a hand, to warn a degenerate world. In 365 came an earthquake; gollowed by a huge withdrawal of the sea, so that you could explore dry-shod the antres of the sea-gods.
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