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Updated: January 10, 2026

Smiling she guides them toward the commandant and says: "Here they are, sir. How do you like them?" That terrific personage has been suddenly transformed from haircloth into silk. He beams, and pulling out his fat gold watch, coos like a hoarse dove: "Look here, kinderen, come and hear the bells in my tick-tock!"

Henry Van Dyke - The Valley of Vision : a Book of Romance an Some Half Told Tales