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Updated: May 21, 2025
Half-way up a rugged promontory, which juts pretty far into the sea, rises Cardoville Castle; a ray of the sun glitters upon its windows; its brick walls and pointed roofs of slate are visible in the midst of this sky loaded with vapors. A large, disabled ship, with mere shreds of sail still fluttering from the stumps of broken masts, drives dead upon the coast.
Exposed by the ebb tide, the sun-caressed slime glitters and shimmers, so that if the observer is content to stand still for a few moments he shall see myriads of obscure activities, graceful and uncouth, of the existence of which he has not previously dreamt and among which his footsteps make a desolating track.
Miss Glitters, he knew, had nothing, and yet he felt he could not do without her; the puzzlement of his mind was, how the deuce they should manage matters 'make tongue and buckle meet, as he elegantly phrased it.
The nose was large and aquiline, the chin, like his son Philip's, square and determined; but it was his eyes that gave a painful fascination to his countenance. They were steely blue, and glittered under the pent-house of his thick eyebrows, that, in striking contrast to the snow-white of his hair, were black in hue, as tempered steel glitters in a curtained room.
Having committed the odious crime of repudiating his mother, Oscar, furious from a sense that his companions were laughing at him, now resolved, at any cost, to make them pay attention to him. "'All is not gold that glitters," he began, his eyes flaming. "That's not it," said Mistigris.
'It must be Sir Harry, replied the billiard-table man, not fancying being 'let in' for anything. 'Oh! Sir Harry will let us have anything we like, I'm sure, rejoined Miss Glitters. 'Oh, we want you to give us a dance under those charming cedars, replied the lady, looking lovingly at him. 'Cedars! hiccuped Sir Harry, 'where do you see any cedars?
Yet, setting aside all this, would not the sun be a sight worthy to be contemplated and worshipped, if he did no more than rise and set? would not the moon be worth looking at, even if it passed uselessly through the heavens? Whose attention is not arrested by the universe itself, when by night it pours forth its fires and glitters with innumerable stars?
This is, moreover, the heart of the old French monarchy; and as that monarchy was splendid and picturesque, a reflection of the splendour still glitters in the current of the Loire. Some of the most striking events of French history have occurred on the banks of that river, and the soil it waters bloomed for a while with the flowering of the Renaissance.
Now that you are unwell, they treat you with respect; but if you get well and remain in their clutches, Heaven alone will be able to help you; for truly, if my cold disdain and repulses had not been my safeguard, they would long since have torn my honour to rags. All is not gold that glitters.
'Ah, ye brute! repeated he, giving him a hearty cropper as he put up his head after trying to kick him off. 'Thank you! exclaimed Miss Glitters, cantering up; adding, 'you cleared the way nicely for me. Nicely he had cleared it for them all; and the pent-up tide of equestrianism now poured over the park like the flood of an irrigated water meadow.
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