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Updated: May 28, 2025
This matched the last coral in the sunset; and it seemed to rest ominously above her head as a finger-point of the fading light of Nature. He went quickly around to her. He locked his arms around her and drew her close and held her close; and thus for a while the two stood, watching the flame on the altar of the world as it sank lower, leaving emptiness and ashes.
Bickley looked up to answer, then changed his mind and was silent, thinking further argument dangerous, and Oro went on: "Now I differ from you, Bickley, in this way. I who have more wisdom in my finger-point than you with all the physicians of your world added to you, have in your brains and bodies, yet desire to learn from those who can give me knowledge.
She was smaller, but pretty and lively; and as she did not fly away like the others, but remained dancing, now on one finger-point, now on another, I regarded her for a long while with admiration. And, as she pleased me so much, I thought in the end I could catch her, and made, as I fancied, a very adroit grasp.
A look of satisfaction grew and grew as she contemplated the letter; not for its meaning that was soon clear. It was something in the handwriting; something that made her hide half-words with a finger-point, and vary her angle of inspection. Then she said, aloud to herself: "Yes!" as though she had come to a decision.
She liked him too much to marry him, that was the truth; something assured her there was a fallacy somewhere in the glowing logic of the proposition as he saw it even though she mightn't put her very finest finger-point on it; and to inflict upon a man who offered so much a wife with a tendency to criticise would be a peculiarly discreditable act.
And it seems to sort with this theory of close relation, that the generation which flared and flounced its person until nature was no more than a kernel in the midst, which puffed itself like a muffin with but a finger-point of dough within, should be the generation that particularly delighted in romantic literature, in which likewise nature is so prudently wrapped that scarce an ankle can show itself.
He caught the basin as it came, but the meal covered him. He blew it from his beard, laughing softly, and twirled the basin on a finger-point. "Like that, there will need two bags!" he said. "Imbecile!" she cried, standing angry in the centre of the room. "Ho, ho, what a big word! See what it is to have the tongue of fashion!" She looked helplessly round the room. "I will kill you!"
She stood erect, bent on a quest that seemed hopeless, watching every eddying curve of water, every flickering ripple, her eyes, luminous as stars, searched the black and riven rocks with an eager passion of discovery, when all suddenly as she gazed, a thin ray of light, pure gold in colour, struck sharply like a finger-point on a shallow pool immediately below her.
"I would enter into it now," said Aben Hassen the Fool. "Thou shalt enter," said Zadok. He stooped, and with his finger-point he drew a circle upon the ground where they stood; then he stamped with his heel upon the circle. Instantly the earth opened, and there appeared a flight of marble steps leading downward into the earth. Zadok led the way down the steps and the young man followed.
He caught the basin as it came, but the meal covered him. He blew it from his beard, laughing softly, and twirled the basin on a finger-point. "Like that, there will need two bags!" he said. "Imbecile!" she cried, standing angry in the centre of the room. "Ho, ho, what a big word! See what it is to have the tongue of fashion!" She looked helplessly round the room. "I will kill you!"
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