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Updated: June 29, 2025
It did not occur to her that the gipsy had heard the Lashcairn legend in the village the most natural thing for a legend-loving gipsy to hear she was accustomed to believing anything she was told, and that the gipsy's words confirmed her own longings made them seem true.
Rory's character was made up of two fine elements, the poetic and the prosaic, but these were not compounded. There was a dreamy, idealistic Rory, born of a legend-loving race; and there was a painfully parsimonious Rory, trained down to the standard of a model wealth-producer.
What wonderful reticence in describing, or rather hinting at, the stupendous miracle that is here in question! Is that like a book that came from the legend-loving and legend-making brains of men; or does it sound like the speech of God, to whom nothing is extraordinary and nothing needs to have a mark of admiration after it?
But to say, as the legend-loving Jew said, that Noah floated his ark over a drowning world and secured for his posterity a standing covenant with God, Who then and once for all set His bow in the heavens; that is to indicate, somewhere, in the dim backward and abysm of time, an historical event. The rainbow is suffered as the skirt of the robe of Noah, who was an ancestor of Israel.
These little feathered beings are supposed to have some mystic influence over the welfare of Venice, and are believed by the legend-loving people to fly three times round the city every day. At the entrance of the piazza towards the sea are two solitary columns, supporting the mighty emblems of St. Mark. "The spouseless Adriatic mourns her love; St.
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