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"Where, then, do they live?" Knops put on an air of mystery as he replied: "I am not permitted to reveal everything concerning us, dear Leo. Our private life is of no public interest; but I may tell you that our children are bred entirely in the open air.
He then took white fire, red fire, and green fire, and black fire, and out these four kinds of fires He fashioned a candlestick with its bowls, its knops, and its flowers. Even then Moses was not able to copy the candlestick, whereupon God drew its design upon his palm, saying to him: "look at this, and imitate the design I have drawn on thy palm."
So saying, Knops turned down a little lane lighted by what looked like small globes of white fire. "Electric light," said Knops, with a gesture of disdain, as he saw Leo blinking with wonder "the commonest sort of a blaze; and yet men have nearly addled their brains over it, while we made it boil our kettles.
Every now and then she dozed. When this happened Mary took the Bible from her and read where it opened: "And he made the candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work made he the candlestick; his shaft, and his branch, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, were of the same.... And in the candlestick were four bowls made like almonds, his knops and his flowers: And a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, according to the six branches going out of it.
They were thinner and much less muscular than the miners and stone-polishers, with eyes too large and legs too small for their bodies, so that they resembled nothing so much as spiders. "See how in the pursuit of the beautiful one can lose all beauty," said Knops, confidentially. "How hot it is here!" said Leo, gasping for breath.
"They are used to it; they all came from Terra del Fuego," replied Knops, calmly. "And now, as a contrast to them, look in here." A hut of solid ice presented itself.
Here was a luxurious couch of beautiful feathers, the plumage of birds he had never beheld, and he was not sorry to see Paz bringing out another dozen of tarts for his refreshment. As he ate them, he asked of Knops, who was peeling a lime, "Have you no women and children among your elves?" "Oh yes," said Knops, smiling; "but they are not to be found near our workshops."
The knops are ornamented with flowers and half-flowers, and the stems beneath have each a frilled collar and a pattern in repoussé of overlapping scales or leaves. The foot, under a cable moulding, is beaten into an egg-and-tongue pattern.
It flashed upon me, stupid as I was, that this must be a deep-sea dredge; and as I was not at all inclined to be hauled up on shipboard, in a lot of mud and shells as a rare specimen of the sea, I got as quickly out of the way as possible. "But it was now time for me to get on terra firma, as Knops would say, or dry land, as I prefer to put it.
Leo smiled faintly, and went on after Knops, who every once in a while gave a tap on the walls with his tool, starting the echoes. "There!" said he, "do you hear that? This is the way we make old houses haunted. I don't do it for fun, as do the elves of folly.
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