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"Tell me," he said to the dwarf, "is my presence required for any length of time?" "Time!" answered Nectabanus, in his flighty manner; "what call you time? I see it not I feel it not it is but a shadowy name a succession of breathings measured forth by night by the clank of a bell, by day by a shadow crossing along a dial-stone.
I put that text, many a year ago, on my dial-stone; but it often preached in vain." "The evening sky of life does not reflect those brilliant flashes of light that shot across its morning and noon, yet I think God it is neither gloomy nor disconsolately lowering a sober twilight that is all."
The irritated gallant passed "The dial-stone, aged and green," without deigning to ask it a single question; nor could it have satisfied his curiosity if he had, for no sun happened to shine at the moment. He then hastened forward, muffling himself in his cloak, and assuming a stooping and slouching gait, which diminished his apparent height.
Suddenly through the falling water there stood up the gaunt end of a house. It was no cot or farm, but a proud mansion, though badly needing repair. A low stone wall bordered a pleasance, but the garden had fallen out of order, and a dial-stone lay flat on the earth. My first thought was that the place was tenantless, till I caught sight of a thin spire of smoke struggling against the downpour.
Portrait, painted by Sir Francis Grant, P.R.A., for the Baroness Ruthven, and now in the National Portrait Gallery of Scotland. Copied by permission of the Hon. The Board of Manufactures, Frontispiece "The Dial-Stone" in the Garden, from drawing made at Abbotsford by George Reid, R.S.A. "I must home to work while it is called day; for the night cometh when no man can work.
I put that text, many years ago, on my dial-stone; but it often preached in vain." Scott's Life, x. 88. "The least right thing." Before breakfast I employed myself in airing my old bibliomaniacal hobby, entering all the books lately acquired into a temporary catalogue, so as to have them shelved and marked.
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