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Updated: June 10, 2025
I had visions of Greenland's icy mountains, of rambles in Siberia, of my long-past midwinter nights in the snow-drifted gorges of Colorado, of shipwreck, and of burning dwellings, and of all moving accidents by flood and field! These dreams followed each other with a rapidity that far outstripped the workings of the electric telegraph.
"Maybe Margalida will like him, and then Ferrer will give me one of his pistols. What do you think, Don Jaime?" He plead the vèrro's cause as if he were already a relative. The poor fellow lived so wretchedly, alone in his shop with no other companion than an old woman always dressed in the black garb of long-past mourning; one of her eyes was watery, the other was shut.
Terrace after terrace, the green aisles mount to the summit of the great ridge, and the ruined forts on each wooded promontory recall the long-past days when the "fruit of gold" demanded the increasing vigilance of military power to defeat the onslaught of merchantman or privateer, willing to run every risk in order to capture a cargo of spices, and secure fabulous gains by appeasing the frantic thirst of Europe for the novel luxury of the aromatic spoils.
There my great delight was to read Scott's poems, which I possessed in pocket volumes. The same volumes are in my study now, and simply to handle them is enough to bring back many sensations of long-past boyhood. Of all the influences that had sway over me in those days and for long afterwards, the influence of Scott was by far the strongest. A boy cannot make a better choice.
It is without any feelings of regret that we learn of the non-existence of a railway line beyond Castellamare, so that our journey to Amalfi along the coast must be performed in the good old-fashioned manner of long-past vetturino days.
Who could possibly have sent a letter to an address which I had left five years since? My correspondent proved to be no less a person than the Congregational Minister the friend whom I had estranged from me by the tone in which I had written to him, on the long-past occasion of his wife's death. It was a distressing letter to read. I beg permission to give only the substance of it in this place.
I have a wife and children and you have a husband, so we both of us have much to fear from other people's opinion." She did not reply; she was thinking of her long-past youth, and of many sad things that had occurred.
It pained, and at the same time amused me, to behold the terrors that attended my advent, to see a furrowed cheek, weather-beaten by half a century of storm, turn ashy pale at the glance of so harmless an individual as myself; to detect, as one or another addressed me, the tremor of a voice which, in long-past days, had been wont to bellow through a speaking-trumpet, hoarsely enough to frighten Boreas himself to silence.
He rarely called her anything but "ma'am," as their nurse had taught him and his brothers and sisters to do in those long-past years. Before eight o'clock the guests had all assembled in the drawing-room, except the countess-dowager and Maude.
This was what the discovery of Ceres, Pallas, Juno, and Vesta seemed to suggest, unless still stranger thought these were but fragments of a mighty planet which had been shattered in long-past ages by some tremendous explosion.
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