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And added to this pleasure was the crowning glory of both a rifle and a revolver! All this fairy-land of the future had come about through Sandy McCulloch! Who was this wonderful Sandy? And why had he telegraphed? Sandy McCulloch! The very name breathed a charm. Donald repeated it to himself constantly. He dreamed dreams and wove adventures about this mysterious Scotchman.
To her childish mind, the stage had become a fairy-land and Miss Arnold its presiding genius. That brother David should love and marry her seemed like something out of a fairy book. She did not blame brother David; she secretly entirely approved of him.
Italy! melody embodied: harmony made visible: Mozart paraphrased: Kingdom into which all artists must seek entrance; fairy-land come true! Kashkine read his letter with relief, with resentment, finally, with laughter. But Ivan's earnest invitation to him to spend the winter in Florence could not be accepted. He had already been absent far too long. Russia claimed him.
When Shakspere was about thirty-two, Sir Walter Raleigh published his glowing account of Guiana, which instantly provided the English mind with an earthly paradise or fairy-land.
Presently she rose, and glided swiftly through the tall grass, till she reached the flower where the blue robed fairy was resting after her day's work. "Oh, sister Blue Bell," she cried, "I have lost my wings! Where shall I get another pair, that I may fly back to fairy-land with you and my sisters when our work is done?"
Worcester is a fairy-land; and then to catch tortoises walking about, and to see 'baviaans', and snakes and secretary birds eating them! and then people have the impudence to think I must have been 'very dull! Sie merken's nicht, that it is THEY who are dull. Dear Dr. Hawtrey! he must have died just as I was packing up the first Caffre Testament for him!
Harbison and Bella, who was taking a mass of indigestables to Aunt Selina, went to the roof. "Where is Tom?" Anne asked, as we reached the foot of the stairs. "Gone ahead to fix things," was the answer. But he was not there. At the top of the last flight I stopped, dumb with amazement; the roof had been transformed, enchanted. It was a fairy-land of lights and foliage and colors.
She could hear his grave, low tones. "Think of me as in fairy-land." That tender, compassionate message had a barbed point which pierced deeper even than the duke's words. Her lover and her husband seemed to have conspired together to revenge themselves upon her. Fay leaned her pretty head against the window-sill and sobbed convulsively.
The babies are as delicate as if they were made of glass, and as light and airy as if they belonged to fairy-land. They run, all the time, backward and forward, just for the pleasure of moving, over the sidewalk, and under it.
Such vases and card receivers indeed, all the pretty bric-a-brac, as we should term it nowadays. But the greatest interest was aroused by the music-boxes. The children listened enchanted to the limpid tinkle of the tunes. It was like fairy-land. "Oh," cried Daisy, with a long sigh of rapture; "if I only could have a music-box! Then I could play for myself. And it is so beautiful. Oh, mamma!" Mrs.
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