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Updated: April 30, 2025
It is not given to every one to be able, in the course of a few weeks or a month or two, to see below the surface indications down to the root-traits of a people a feat which becomes of necessity the more difficult when those root-traits are one's own root-traits and the fundamental traits of one's own people at home, while on the surface are all manner of queer, confusing dazzlements of local peculiarities which jump to the stranger's vision and set him blinking.
He did, though in a smaller sphere, the very same thing that the writer of the Epistle to the Hebrews magnified with his splendid eloquence, in reference to the great Lawgiver, 'And chose rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, and to turn his back upon the dazzlements of a court, than to 'enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season, whilst his brethren were suffering.
When we got in, she excused herself and went off to her own room, coming back, after a weary time, in such a glory of silks and satins that I blinked my eyes before her dazzlements.
The dark eyes of a sparkling brunette embarrassed him as much as the dreamy blue orbs of a lily-like blonde, they were curious dazzlements that got into his way at times, and made him doubtful as to whether any positive sincerity ever could or ever would lurk behind such bewildering brief flashes of light which appeared to shine forth without meaning, and vanish again without result.
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