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"'I did, said the baron; 'I, who am all that there is of amiable. Yes, I lost my temper. He stood up as he went on. 'I said it was uncivilized, that it was no jest, but a grave matter. Mon Dieu! That man, he told me that we fought with knitting-needles, that our duels were baby-play me me he said that to me! What could I reply? I said I should ask him to retract. That man laughed
'Look in, Berenger signed to Philip, his own eyes averted, his mouth set. The cradle was empty, totally empty, save for a woolen covering, a little mattress, and a string of small yellow shells threaded. Berenger held out his hand, grasped the baby-play thing convulsively, then dropped upon his knees, clasping his hands over his ashy face, the string of shells still wound among his fingers.
The more you play that game the better you can play it, and when it gets too easy then you feel that it is tame, and you want something harder to win than the prize of such baby-play. We all feel this in one way or another. We always have, since long before the days of Umpl. And it is just because of this that we now know more and can do more than Umpl did or could.
"What! have you forgotten, in the hurry of these late events, the sentence of accusation which we overheard uttered between these ladies on the morning of the inquest?" "No, but " "You believed it to have been spoken by Mary to Eleanore?" "Of course; didn't you?" Oh, the smile which crossed Mr. Gryce's face! "Scarcely. I left that baby-play for you.
With a mysterious and terrible Past, which had annihilated his memory, and a blank Future before him, he had only this visionary and impalpable Now, which, if you once look closely at it, is nothing. He himself, as was perceptible by many symptoms, lay darkly behind his pleasure, and knew it to be a baby-play, which he was to toy and trifle with, instead of thoroughly believing.
Olive thought, though she did not then say, that noble Margaret, the mother of her people, the softener of her half-savage lord, the teacher and guide of her children, was more near the ideal of womanhood than the simple, kind-hearted, but childish worshippers, who spent their lives in the harmless baby-play of decking her shrine with flowers.
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