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For the light of Romance falls on him; he is a shining half faery figure. Outwardly there was pomp, stately manners, pageantry, high magnificence; inwardly, a burning-up of the national imagination to ensoul it. The Unseen, with all its mystery and awe or loveliness, was the very nearly visible: not a pass nor lake nor moor nor forest but was crowded with the things of which wonder is made.
Ivery minute now should give me a dozen men, an' we want to start the blaze down this way. I tell ye it's a burning-up town." "So I should guess from the smoke we see," said Merwyn, with his old laugh. "Jupiter! there comes a squad of cops." "Well, what do we care? We're two paceable, dacent citizens, a-strollin' down Broadway." "Oh, I'm not afraid," was the careless reply.
Intestine wars, fevers, famines, a general burning-up of earth and all its millions, were any of these preferable sorts of death to that caused by the gradual rise of water, with hope of life accorded still even to the last gurgle? Assuredly, if "the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel," the judgments of the Good one are tempered well with mercy.
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