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Updated: June 6, 2025
This day there was to be an unusually low tide, and we had reckoned on enlarging our acquaintance with the bed of the ocean of knowing a few yards more of the millions of miles lapt in the mystery of waters. It was to be low water about two o'clock, and we resolved to dine upon the sands.
He was a disposer of men: he was polished, luxurious, and happy at their cost. He lived in eminent self-content, as one lying on soft cloud, lapt in sunshine. Nor Jove, nor Apollo, cast eye upon the maids of earth with cooler fire of selection, or pursued them in the covert with more sacred impunity. And he enjoyed his reputation for virtue as something additional.
But now began to appear in Robert the first signs of a practical outcome of such truth as his grandmother had taught him, operating upon the necessities of a simple and earnest nature. Reality, however lapt in vanity, or even in falsehood, cannot lose its power. It is the other is not. She had taught him to look up that there was a God. He would put it to the test.
He remembered too the honour such a type of creature had had in being lapt around for ever in the airy folds of L'Allegro. And to think that Mistress Jean, for whom everybody had such a respect, should speak of the creature in such a tone! it sent a thrill of horrific wonder and delight through the whole frame of the boy: might, could there be such creatures?
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