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I assure you that's the fairy-tale way. Fenwick, who had flushed hotly, turned away and occupied himself in replenishing his palette. 'Papa, of course, would say Don't marry till you're a hundred and two! she resumed. 'But pray, don't listen to him. 'I dare say he's right, said Fenwick, returning to his easel, his face bent over it. 'Not at all. People should have their youth together.
The Dyaks of Borneo, both young and old, are very fond of listening to stories, and often in the evening in the public hall of the long Dyak village house, a crowd of men, women and children may be seen seated on mats, listening to a legend or fairy-tale related by some old man.
Owing to the fervent manner in which each succeeding dance was encored, it was after midnight before the fairy-tale masquerade came to an end and the lords and ladies of fairy lore became everyday boys and girls again; and went home congratulating themselves on the blessed fact that to-morrow was Saturday and that they could make up lost sleep the next morning.
So he would sit talking, when he had been drinking a little, but otherwise he was usually silent. Pelle knew the story of the "Great Power" now, from the daily gossip of the townsfolk, and his career seemed to him sadder than all the rest; it was as though a fairy-tale of fortune had come to a sudden end.
Sitting up in a little wooden cot was a child of two or three years old, his baby face wild with fright. "Poor bairn!" exclaimed Raeburn, taking him in his strong arms. "Have they forgotten you?" The child was German and did not understand a word, but it knew in a moment that this man, so like a fairy-tale giant, was a rescuer. "Guter Riese!" it sobbed, appealingly.
I keep forgetting to write to you: read Ertel's story "The Seers" in "Russkaya Mysl." There is poetry and something terrible in the old-fashioned fairy-tale style about it. It is one of the best new things that has come out in Moscow.... YALTA, March 27, 1894. I am in good health generally, ill in certain parts. For instance, a cough, palpitations of the heart, haemorrhoids.
This subject, however, died away, and from the ending of my childhood up to the period of my arrival in the Levant, I had seldom even heard a mentioning of the Lady Hester Stanhope, but now, wherever I went, I was met by the name so familiar in sound, and yet so full of mystery from the vague, fairy-tale sort of idea which it brought to my mind; I heard it, too, connected with fresh wonders, for it was said that the woman was now acknowledged as an inspired being by the people of the mountains, and it was even hinted with horror that she claimed to be more than a prophet.
They talked in Persian, for she had not forgotten the language which her mother had spoken till her dying day. Life is sometimes as strange as a fairy-tale; and the accident was indeed wonderful which had brought these two beings, of all others, at the same time to the sick room. His distant home was also hers, and he even knew her uncle her father's brother and her father's sad history.
But when a man has strained every nerve to maintain an absolute fluidity and a painful fidelity to the immediate, he can hardly be blamed if he lapses at last into some flattering myth, and if having satisfied himself that all science is fiction he proclaims some fairy-tale to be the truth.
I lived in the suburbs with my father, and when I mingled with the bright, merry, fair and innocent human world, then all my father had told me seemed but an ugly fairy-tale. But London is a strange and, for a person of my temperament, a most dangerous city.
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