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Ridgeley," said he, "I would like to know more of you. You young men are fresher, see, and what is better, feel quicker and clearer than the older and more hackneyed. Are you already shelled over with accepted dogmas, and without the power of receiving new ideas?" "I hardly know; I fear I am not very reverent.
I cannot see the sun set where I lurk in my ambush amidst the brake and the ruins, but I feel that the orb has passed from the landscape, in the fresher air of the twilight, in the deeper silence of eve. Lo! Hesper comes forth; at his signal, star after star, come the hosts, "Ch' eran con lui, quando l' amor divino, Mosse da prima quelle cose belle!" And the sweet voice is hushed.
Exposure is frank and clean-hearted compared to these manifestations of human beings; so that one with the beginnings of fresher vision cries out, "If I do not know, if I have not taste and cannot see truly, at least let me do as others do not...." And again the heaviness of it all lies in the bringing up of children not to revolt. I talked of these matters to the Chapel group.
"If we could only open a window," sighed Mark, "and let in a lot of fresh air, how nice it would be." The air rapidly became more foul. Soon Washington was gasping for breath. Tom and Bill showed signs of uneasiness. "Lie down on the floor," counseled the professor. "You will find the air a little fresher down there." They all did as he advised, the inventor himself stretching out at full length.
"I felt there was something else, beside." "There was!" Saidee confessed. "You know now at least you know part. I was jealous. I am still but I'm ashamed of myself. I'm sick with shame. And I do love you!" "Of course of course you do, darling." "But there's somebody else I love. A man. And I couldn't bear to think he might see you, because you're so much younger and fresher than I."
There is no need to tell over what the papers told how he had taken the leadership of the demoralized band; how when he found them cut off from the escape which he had planned he had set them to work building a barrier across a passage where the air was fresher; how behind this barrier they had lived for six days, by the faith and courage of Johnny McLean.
The blossoming plants were his own gift and so was the fading nosegay; the other, fresher one had not come from him, so he enquired who was the giver, and was not a little astonished to see his favorite's confusion and agitation at the question.
"I remember everything," Martie said, smiling. "We're nearly home!" The old Monroe house looked shabby, even in the spring green. Martie had seen the deeper, fresher green of the East for six successive springs. The eucalyptus trees wore their tassels, the willows' fresh foliage had sprung over the old rusty leaves.
Cousin Saul worth seeing, and Ruth a far prettier girl than any of the city rose-buds coming out this season. Bring Leonard Randal along with you to take notes for his new books; then it will be fresher and truer than the last, clever as it was. "The air is delicious up here, society amusing, this old farmhouse full of treasures, and your bosom friend pining to embrace you.
She was the daughter of a woman at whose house he lodged, and her age was less than half of his own. It is to be supposed he loved her. A year after their marriage she fell into low health, and her husband took her off to Lewminster for fresher air. She was lodging alone at Lewminster, and the man was passing Lewminster station on his engine, twice a day, at the time when this tale begins.
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