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"I don't want him," said the lad, "I want his servant, Stefan." "By another strange chance he lives here, too. What do you want with him?" "Is he abroad yet?" "Aye, he never sleeps at all." "I live too nigh the city for fairy-tales," said the boy. "Will you bring me to this same Stefan? I have a message for him." "Don't bawl it, lad, whisper.
"Do you see the green of those beeches by the water, Paul? Look at their tenderness, next the dark firs and then the blue beyond and see, there is a copper beech, he is king of them all! I would like to build a chalet up in some part like that, and come there each year in May to read fairy-tales."
If it’s true—then fairy-tales are true.” She paused and looked Maida straight in the eye. “I can’t believe it, Maida. But I know you believe it. And that’s all there is to it. But you’d better believe I’m your friend.” Saying which she marched out. Maida’s second trouble began that night. It had grown dark. Suddenly, without any warning, the door of the shop flew open.
It is really difficult to decide when we come to the extreme edge of veracity, when and when not it is permissible to create an illusion. A standing example, for instance, is the case of the fairy-tales. We think a father entirely pure and benevolent when he tells his children that a beanstalk grew up into heaven, and a pumpkin turned into a coach.
For all that I have really the right to say from substantial evidence to the contrary, I might very well say that the English value us for those things of the mind and soul which we are somewhat neglectful of ourselves, and I insist the more, therefore, that it is only their love of fairy-tales which is taken with the notion of an opulence so widespread among us as to constitute us a nation of potential, if not actual, millionaires.
But the things that seem really likely, like fairy-tales and magic, are, so say the grown-ups, not true at all. Yet they are so easy to believe, especially when you see them happening.
The abomination changed into deliciousness. There are fairy-tales that are real. For all she knew, Paliser might change into Prince Charming and certainly he looked it. He had been saying something, what she did not hear.
The "bamboo basket" is a Moses motive which occurs in other Chinese fairy-tales. "Wooden fish": A hollow piece of wood in the form of a fish, which is beaten by the Buddhists as sign of watchfulness. Three collections of books the Tripitaka. As regards one of the legendary companions of Huan Dschuang on his journey, see No. 74.
The river answers the songs with sighs. And the tree-tops shake, lost in meditation. Silence. Foma spent all day long on the captain's bridge beside his father. Without uttering a word, he stared wide-eyed at the endless panorama of the banks, and it seemed to him he was moving along a broad silver path in those wonderful kingdoms inhabited by the sorcerers and giants of his familiar fairy-tales.
May blossom was beginning to come out along the hedge of the private grounds that bordered that bit of Cockney Common, and from it, warmed by the sun, the scent stole up to her. Familiar, like so many children of the cultured classes, with the pagan and fairy-tales of nature, she forgot them all the moment she was really by herself with earth and sky.
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