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"It isn't getting interesting it's so already," declared Mollie. "Go on, please, Mr. Blackford, tell us what sort of birth-mark your sister has." "That's just the trouble," he remarked, ruefully. "I can't do it." "Why not?" Betty wanted to know. "Because, just at that point where the description of the birth-mark, and its location, should appear the letter is torn. A corner is gone.
The austere life which he had led, the terrible remembrances he had left behind him the impression of which is still powerful in the East the sombre image which, even in our own time, causes trembling and death all this mythology, full of vengeance and terror, vividly struck the mind of the people, and stamped as with a birth-mark all the creations of the popular mind.
'Yes, said Peter, 'it is rather annoying. 'Old servants are proverbial for their long memories, the clerkly visitor went on. 'Are there any such remaining in his old home who would know anything about the man? Even a birth-mark although it is a thing most often connected with cheap romances nowadays might help to establish a case. 'Or disestablish it, said Peter.
"Look, Jim, look!" shouted Joe to his brother above the din the Doukhobors made, while at the same time he pointed towards the young woman's head, upon which one braid of white hair stood plainly out against a black braid on each side of it. "She is the first human being I ever saw or heard of that had the birth-mark of the McDonald's."
He speaks somewhere of Byron's virtues and vices as being so closely interwoven that he could not have had one without the other, and if the objectionable passages in his poetry were expurgated, the life and genius of it would go with them. His story of "The Birth-mark" is an allegory of the same description.
He simply set forth the facts with his habitual exactness and fairness; and where Flinders was just, there is surely no warrant for others to perpetuate an accusation which originated in a period of intense national hatred and jealousy, and bears its birth-mark upon it.
"It was magnificent! Those two great artists! But over all the play the play! Romance new-born; poesy marching with victorious banners; a great spirit breathing! Like 'Cyrano' the birth-mark of immortality on this work!" There was another pause, after which old Tom turned slowly to me, and said: "Homer Tibbs's opened up a cigar-stand at the deepo.
Blackford, as he consulted the description, the torn-off piece having been pasted on to make it complete. "It's a red birth-mark, this paper says, and is in the shape of a 'V'. I do hope it will lead to something. If you girls " "Why why!" cried Betty springing to her feet. "Amy, you have a mark like that at least it looks like a mark on your arm. I have often seen it!"
"And you mean to say, I suppose," shrieked out Mistress Ann Putnam, "that you have no witch-mark either; that you do not carry the devil's brand of a snake over your heart?" "I have some such mark, but it is a birth-mark, and not a witch-mark. It is a simple curving line of red," and the girl blushed crimson at being compelled to such a reference to a personal peculiarity.
But as the cloud closes around the lithe figure of Donatello, we hear again from its hidden folds the words of "The Birth-Mark": "Thus ever does the gross fatality of earth exult in its invariable triumph over the immortal essence, which, in this dim sphere of half-development, demands the completeness of a higher state". Or still more sadly, the mysterious youth, half vanishing from our sympathy, seems to murmur, with Beatrice Rappaccini, "And still as she spoke, she kept her hand upon her heart, 'Wherefore didst thou inflict this miserable doom upon thy child?"
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