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Updated: June 15, 2025
The man within was stooping over a number of papers laid out on the table. "'Twas ever thus," said Trent in a melancholy tone, at the first sound of which the man within turned round with startling swiftness. "From childhood's hour I've seen my fondest hopes decay.
I will give my little girl readers a single specimen of my twelve-year-old "Diving Bell" verses, though I feel as if I ought to apologize even for that. It is on a common subject, "Life like a Rose": "Childhood's like a tender bud That's scarce been formed an hour, But which erelong will doubtless be A bright and lovely flower.
He told her about his sentimental journey, and how he found all the creations of his childhood's imagination still so alive and kicking in a forgotten backwater of his mind that they all hopped out and took objective form the sprites, the starlight express, the boundless world of laughter, fun and beauty.
Perhaps Mary did not wholly coincide with my argument, but she was called away to her sewing-circle, while Phyllis and I lounged lazily on the porch, I continuing my reminiscences. Garrulity is not merely the prerogative of age; the privilege of the monologue is always that of the old boy who comes back to his childhood's home and finds in a pretty girl a charming and attentive listener.
It was at last the awakening of the woman whom she was destined to be, whom he had divined in childhood's days a dear creature of gaiety and passion, with blooming lips, starry eyes, a milky complexion, golden hair, all resplendent with the joy of being. "Oh!
He felt withdrawal in her whole body, so close to him, so far away. Why was she so far away? Suddenly he remembered yesterday the moment when the stranger woman had looked out at him from Natalie's eyes. She was far away because they two had traveled far from childhood. His own hands were hot. They were eager to seize Natalie, to drag himself back, and her with him, into childhood's land of faith.
Of course everyone was agreed that Ellen Godden gave herself lamentable airs, but she appealed to her neighbours' curiosity through her queer, exotic ways, and the young men found her undeniably beautiful she had a thick, creamy skin, into which her childhood's roses sometimes came as a dim flush, and the younger generation of the Three Marshes was inclined to revolt from the standards of its fathers.
That you were, as you tell me, a frequent guest in my childhood's home, holding my parents in warm esteem, might account for the exceeding kindness of the welcome you did give me. But this generosity this wondrous goodness I stand amazed, confounded! That you should do so great a thing to make it possible that I should wed the Prioress It passes understanding!"
I should like you well enough to linger with me on the river till the storm is over, and watch the marvellous sunsets that flood the western sky with colors of green and gold which no painter's brush ever matched; and when night has dropped the curtain, to see the lights flashing forth from the tall buildings in story after story until it is as if the fairyland of our childhood's dreams lay there upon the brooding waters within grasp of mortal hands.
It was all he saw at first this tiny figure. Demure and soft, it remained motionless before him, a hint of childhood's wonder in its graceful attitude. He was aware of something mischievous as well that laughed at him.... He realised then that she waited for him to speak.
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