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Updated: May 17, 2025
But some day, when you happen to cast a look at it, you find that instead of hanging flat on the wall, your picture has gone through it opens out into some region you don't know where shows you far-receding distances of air and sea in short, where you thought one question was settled for ever, a hundred are opened up for the present hour." "Bravo, wife !" I cried in true delight.
Once again, for the purpose of taking away all solitariness of feeling, and of connecting myself, albeit only in fancy, with the proper gladness of the time, let me think of the comfortable family dinners now being drawn to a close, of the good wishes uttered, and the presents made, quite valueless in themselves, yet felt to be invaluable from the feelings from which they spring; of the little children, by sweetmeats lapped in Elysium; and of the pantomime, pleasantest Christmas sight of all, with the pit a sea of grinning delight, the boxes a tier of beaming juvenility, the galleries, piled up to the far-receding roof, a mass of happy laughter which a clown's joke brings down in mighty avalanches.
He gave her credit for feelings superior to Drouet at the first glance. The cab plopped along between the far-receding lines of gas lamps on either hand. He folded his gloved hands and saw only the lighted chamber and Carrie's face. He was pondering over the delight of youthful beauty. "I'll have a bouquet for her," he thought. "Drouet won't mind."
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