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I remember on one occasion, however, that when we next weighed the anchor, it came up with parts polished bright, as in my childhood we used sometimes to burnish a copper cent. This seemed to show that it had been scoured hard along a sandy bottom.
"But tell me truly," said I. "Is there no virtuous lady or honest gentleman in all this great crowd?" He stared, his jaw dropping. "Strap me, the place is full of them," he ejaculated. "They are as thick as flies in a fish-market." "Well, then," said I, "let us talk of them. 'Tis well to furbish and burnish our minds with tales of rectitude and honour." But the little Doctor was no longer happy.
They were heavier, it is true, and they may have seemed the smarter, for Wellington used to make them burnish their metal work, which was not usual among us. On the other hand, it is well known that the English tunics were too tight for the sword-arm, which gave our men an advantage.
'Bid the man come before me, cried Gwrnach, when the porter had told his tale, 'for my sword stands much in need of polishing, so Kai passed in and saluted Gwrnach the giant. 'Is it true what I hear of thee, that thou canst burnish swords? 'It is true, answered Kai. Then was the sword of Gwrnach brought to him.
It means that no resemblance is more urged than that which separates a family and children. This does not mean that anything shows that there is a temporary absence of more. Nothing shows everything more plainly and yet why is there more safety than numbers. Nobody knows the cloth to be blue. Nobody knows and nobody says what everybody seats himself to burnish.
Part of it has dropped away: the gilded brass balls, the cupola, are here and there tarnished; but the sun sets, and his indulgent rays swamp every defect, burnish and polish and gild corner-stone and fretted marble and emerald-green tile alike, until the "to-day" of the Kutobea is as triumphant as its "yesterday" of many hundred years.
Each epoch has its secret, and each epoch-maker his own. Caesar's secret lay in the power he had of projecting a soul into the ranks of an army, of making legions and their leader one. Disobedience only he punished; anything else he forgave. After a victory his soldiery did what they liked. He gave them arms, slaves to burnish them, women, feasts, sleep.
'Bid the man come before me, cried Gwrnach, when the porter had told his tale, 'for my sword stands much in need of polishing, so Kai passed in and saluted Gwrnach the giant. 'Is it true what I hear of thee, that thou canst burnish swords? 'It is true, answered Kai. Then was the sword of Gwrnach brought to him.
"I don't think that any of you have heard it." "That will interest me," Fitzgerald cried. "Tell it." M. Ferraud cleared his throat with a sharp ahem and proceeded to burnish his crystals. Specks and motes were ever adhering to them. He held them up to the light and pretended to look through them: he saw nothing but the secretary's abstraction.
We stand upon the brink of a superb adventure. To rummage about in the lumber-room of a bygone period: to wipe away the dust from long-neglected annals: to burnish up old facts and fancies: to piece together the life-story of some loved hero long dead: that is a work of reverent thought to be undertaken in peace and seclusion.
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