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The infirmity of art was the candour of affection, the grossness of pedigree the refinement of sympathy; the ugliest objects, in fact, as a general thing, were the bravest, the tenderest mementos, and, as such, figured in glass cases apart, worthy doubtless of the home, but not worthy of the temple dedicated to the grimacing, not to the clear-faced, gods.
As they sauntered through the village's contrasts of pigmy and colossal in architecture, they praisefully took in the unalloyed holiday character of the place, enjoying equally the lounging tourists at the hotel doors, the drivers and their carriages to let, and the little shops, with nothing but mementos of Niagara, and Indian beadwork, and other trumpery, to sell.
The date showed that it had been given to her by his father, and the shirt and doll were mementos of him, her darling of himself. He gazed at them, changing them from one hand to the other, till suddenly his heart overflowed, and without heeding Frau Geel, who was watching him, he wept softly, exclaiming: "Mother, dear mother!"
That nigger's knobkerrie and photograph are now in the Baden-Powell museum a museum which began with butterflies and birds' eggs, and now includes mementos of nearly every tribe and animal on the face of the earth. After the fight Baden-Powell got back to Buluwayo in time for late lunch, and "made up for lost time in the office."
He was able to send this relic of that great battle home, and his mother has it now among her choicest mementos. After a time the division operating table was set up in the edge of a piece of timber not very far away. I was on the watch, expecting every minute to be taken out, but I waited and waited and no one came for me. I became quite impatient at this delay.
You never can tell what pebble she will pick up from the shore of life to keep among her treasures, or what inconspicuous flower of the field she will preserve as the symbol of "Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears." She has her own scale of values for these mementos, and knows nothing of the market price of precious stones or the costly splendour of rare orchids.
The date showed that it had been given to her by his father, and the shirt and doll were mementos of him, her darling of himself. He gazed at them, changing them from one hand to the other, till suddenly his heart overflowed, and without heeding Frau Geel, who was watching him, he wept softly, exclaiming: "Mother, dear mother!"
As mementos from home, the soldiers wore in their caps and buttonholes withered flowers and sprigs of green which their womenfolk had given in farewell. The women were just as Spartan as the Spartans; perhaps more so. If any soldier lacked innate courage, the spur of public opinion drove him forward in step with his comrades.
He smiled and walked on, but added airily to Orion: "When I come again you know I shall be pleased if my eye is no longer offended by these mementos of an extinct idolatry." "Truth and justice!" replied Orion in a constrained voice. "They have dwelt on this spot and ruled in this house for nearly five hundred years."
There was more genius in it than in any structure of the kind I have ever seen, each length being of a special pattern, ramified, reticulated, contorted, as the limbs of the trees had grown. I trust some friend will photograph or stereograph this fence for me, to go with the view of the spires of Frederick, already referred to, as mementos of my journey.
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