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His brain refused to concentrate itself on any other aspect of the situation he could not, would not, dared not, think of anything else. He knew vaguely he ought to rejoice with her over her wonderful stroke of luck, that savoured of the fairy-story, but everything was swamped by that one almost resentful reflection. Oh, the irony of fate!
And when he did this Jacqueline with rapture saw the painter's face, no longer with its scowl, but softened by some secret influence, the lines smoothed from his brow, while the beautiful smile which had fascinated so many women passed like a ray of light over his expressive mobile features; then she would once more fancy that he was making love to her, and indeed he said many things, which, without rousing in himself any scruples of conscience, or alarming the propriety of Fraulein Schult, were well calculated to delude a girl who had had no experience, and who was charmed by the illusions of a love- affair, as she might have been by a fairy-story.
Carried away with her proximity, however, he would not now be denied. "This is but a fairy-story, Duchess. Oh, Fairy Queen, could you not find a kingdom for the other man in fairyland a kingdom with you as Queen?" His naked soul was laying pleading hands upon her quivering heart. She turned away, unable to withstand the suppliance of his eyes.
"Go on with ye, lad what's all this about?" "Come in and I'll tell you," he said. So they went into the bare kitchen, and sat in bare wooden chairs Mary folding her hands in her lap like a child who has been promised a fairy-story. "Now hurry," said she. "I want to know about this new dress ye're givin' me. Are ye tired of me old calico?" He joined in her smile.
Randall was a great deal like the witch in a fairy-story, but that wasn't it. Linda hadn't the belief in witches necessary for dread. It might be her scratching voice; or the way she turned her head, without any chin at all, like a turtle; or her dresses, which led you to expect a person very different from an old buzzard. "Of course she does," said Mrs.
I made out a fairy-story of me being wearied of the war, and having pushed the gun at them these last three months in the hope they'd capture it and let me go home. That tickled 'em to death. They made me say it three times over, and laughed like kids each time. But half the British are kids; specially the older men. My Captain Mankeltow was less of it than the others.
Human life is a fertile field for tragedy. The more we rid the narratives of their fairy-story accompaniments and see Jesus, not as a god who foreknows his human life and plays it out gravely as an actor who knows his role, but as a human being hurried to issues he had not at first dreamed of, the more his career becomes comprehensible.
Yet such thoughts do not suffice for the man whose personal suffering is keen. They silence rather than answer the question which presses upon Job. The story must be otherwise helped out, so some kindly champion of orthodoxy put in a fairy-story climax, Job got well of his boils, had more sheep and oxen than ever, had other children born to him. And so the difficulty is happily solved!
Tell me a fairy-story," she commanded with almost childish eagerness. "Or have you Americans foresworn fairies for Edisons?" "I know one who has not," he answered, falling soothingly into her mood. "He has seen the Queen, Titania." "Well, tell me about her. Oh, I do hope that she was beautiful," and she dimpled bewitchingly. "She was fairy queens are always beautiful, and sometimes kind.
She liked the name, and she liked still more the feeling that when its beautiful old walls shut her in no one knew where she was. It seemed almost like being shut out of the world in some fairy place. The few books she had read and liked had been fairy-story books, and she had read of secret gardens in some of the stories.
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