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Updated: May 7, 2025
But something in the half-deciphered printed names caught her attention. She bent lower, doubting if she could have read aright. "Brig.-General and Mrs. Frayling." Two smaller cards, also bearing the General's name, ranged with two others bearing that of "The Rev. Marshall Wace."
Seems, as we speak, we glimpse his majestic figure, and the grandeur of his face and cloudy beard. He passed away, but the enchanted stone remained, and has sparkled along the splendid march of successive dynasties, and has reflected men and cities which to us are nameless, or but a half-deciphered name.
For then we allow the half-deciphered images of sense to drag behind them every emotion they have awakened. We endow each overmastering stimulus with all its diffuse effects; and any dramatic potentiality that our dream acts out under that high pressure and crude experience is rich in dreams becomes our notion of the life going on before us.
But behind that indivisible moment of recent time, that eighty thousand years which coincides in part with the fraction of a single swing of the cosmical pendulum, there lie hours, and days, and weeks, and months, and years, and centuries, and ages of an infinite, an illimitable, an inconceivable past, whose vast divisions unfold themselves slowly, one beyond the other, to our aching vision in the half-deciphered pages of the geological record.
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