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Under the law of muru a man smitten by sudden calamity was politely plundered of all his possessions. It was the principle under which the wounded shark is torn to pieces by its fellows, and under which the merchant wrecked on the Cornish coast in bye-gone days was stripped of anything the waves had spared. Among the Maoris, however, it was at once a social duty and a personal compliment.
It is this statement, the outcome of "the true spirit of devout inquiry ... by persons of consideration in evening dress" which forms the leit motif of Aberigh-Mackay's powerful satire, in which a gingham umbrella, "conceived in the liberal spirit of a bye-gone age," is substituted for an old fashioned breast brooch set round with pearls, with glass at the front and the back, made to contain hair, which, long lost, was stated to have been recovered for its owner as a result of Madame Blavatsky's occult powers.
Of old one scarcely met a well-dressed man now scores upon scores. In bye-gone times, we scarcely beheld a carriage, lumbering and uneasy as those things were now we see elegant equipages of every make, shape, and build, suitable for every style of locomotion. In all things have we progressed; nor are we yet standing still. We are doubling our trade.
"As for France," answered the Secretary, "we may expect due provision from his Majesty who is believe me a true lover of his own country; as also from your Honour, whose noble house has done well-known service in bye-gone times. The Church, Lords, Commons, are Three Estates " "Alack, Sir Edward," interrupted the impatient sailor, "this is that whereto Prynne would lead us.
The broad and richly-coloured plains of "la belle France" were before me and it is "la belle France," however inferior to parts of England in rural beauty the large tracts of waving yellow corn, undulating like a sea in the morning breeze the interminable reaches of forest, upon which the shadows played and flitted, deepening the effect and mellowing the mass, as we see them in Ruysdael's pictures while now and then some tall-gabled, antiquated chateau, with its mutilated terrace and dowager-like air of bye-gone grandeur, would peep forth at the end of some long avenue of lime trees, all having their own features of beauty and a beauty with which every object around harmonizes well.
Such ideas manifestly cannot have been conceived by the savages among whom they are found, and they remain as eloquent witnesses of the revelations made by some great Teacher dim tradition of whom is generally also discoverable who was a Son of the Wisdom, and imparted some of its teachings in a long bye-gone age.
For on the nibbled green steep above the kiln stood a bye-gone, worn- out specimen of such an erection, huge, impressive, and difficult to scale even now in its decay. It was a British castle or entrenchment, with triple rings of defence, rising roll behind roll, their outlines cutting sharply against the sky, and Jim's kiln nearly undermining their base.
Could we draw aside the thick veil that hides the future from us, we might perhaps behold our great seaport swelling into a metropolis, in size and importance, its suburbs creeping out to an undreamt-of distance from its centre; or we might, reversing the picture, behold Liverpool by some unthought-of calamity some fatal, unforeseen mischance, some concatenation of calamities dwindled down to its former insignificance: its docks shipless, its warehouses in ruins, its streets moss-grown, and in its decay like some bye-gone cities of the east, that once sent out their vessels laden with "cloth of blue, and red barbaric gold."
May our mercies be sanctified, and may grace be bestowed upon us in rich abundance, to enable us to pity and forgive those sects who, in a bye-gone age, were the tools of Satan, and whose habitations were full of cruelty.
The low-roofed cottage, with its many-pointed gables and narrow casement, was gay with the bright flowers of that home of their hearts cherished and guarded there with the tenderest care all hues of earth seemed blended in the bright parterre of tulips, over which the magnificent dahlia towered, tall and stately as a queen the rich scent of the wallflower breathed around, and the jessamine went climbing freely o'er the trellissed porch and arching eaves each flower around my home bore to me the face of a friend they bore to me the poetry of the earth, as the stars tell the sweet harmonies of heaven but there is a vision of fairer beauty than either star or flower comes with the thought of these bye-gone days the face of my orphan cousin Ella Werner arises in the brightness of its young beauty, as it used to beam upon me from the latticed window of my home: for her's, indeed,
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