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Toward the eastern border of the sea, south of the Harbinger Mountains, we find a most remarkable object, the mountain ring, or crater plain, called Aristarchus. This ring is not quite thirty miles in diameter, but there is nothing on the moon that can compare with it in dazzling brilliance.
I cannot count it a deed where I have come back with my purpose unfulfilled. But this is no time, Raoul, to talk of my small affairs. If we take the castle and I bear a good part in it, then perchance all this may indeed avail." The Frenchman sat up with that strange energy which comes often as the harbinger of death.
It was a disappointment to those who desired to know often of the spirit of the workers, and of the little events that happened there, not to find more notices of them. In many other respects the Harbinger was a grand success. In all that pertained to music, criticism, poetry and progress no journal stood higher.
As I stood," continues the explorer, warming with the thoughts of his discovery, "the first European intruder on the sublime solitude of these verdant plains, as yet untouched by flocks or herds, I felt conscious of being the harbinger of mighty changes; and that our steps would soon be followed by the men and animals for which it seemed to have been prepared."
Without intending to be presumptuous, we may be permitted to believe that we were spared partly on account of the service in which we were engaged so beneficial to humanity, so calculated to promote the spread of civilization, which must ever be the harbinger of Christianity.
How slowly the night passes to one tipping and swinging along in a slowly moving stage! But the harbinger of the day came at last. When the fiddler rose from his knees, I saw the morning-star burst out of the east like a great diamond, and I knew that Venus was strong enough to pull up even the sun, from whom she is never distant more than an eighth of the heavenly circle.
The inspiration of itself would not have been the harbinger of consolation we were long listening to sound and fury, meaning nothing but we were quick to associate it with the unfurling of the Flag, to put the two "straws" together and sigh! "The Column," our Gazette asserted, "had made a most successful reconnaissance."
"Perhaps," says Richard Lander, "there cannot be a greater comfort under the sun, than sound and invigorating sleep to the weary, nor in our opinion, a greater grievance than the loss of it; because wakefulness at those hours, which nature has destined for repose, is, in nine cases out of ten, sure to be the harbinger of peevishness, discontent, and ill humour, and not unfrequently induces languor, lassitude, and disease.
How many women thus waste life away, the prey of discontent, who might have practised as physicians, regulated a farm, managed a shop, and stood erect, supported by their own industry, instead of hanging their heads surcharged with the dew of sensibility, that consumes the beauty to which it at first gave lustre; nay, I doubt whether pity and love are so near a-kin as poets feign, for I have seldom seen much compassion excited by the helplessness of females, unless they were fair; then, perhaps, pity was the soft handmaid of love, or the harbinger of lust.
"I know of only one some years ago, the year the war broke out, but he recovered then very quickly," answered Oliver. "Is your mother living!" "Yes." "Better send her word at once." The night wind sighed through the old sycamores of Kennedy Square. A soft haze, the harbinger of the coming spring, filled the air.
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