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I'll take you into the house instead, and find some plum-cake for you!" Carrying Stella in his big, strong arms, the strange old gentleman ushered Midge and Molly into the house and made straight for the dining-room. "Folks all gone away," he went on, still in his gruff, deep tones, but somehow they now sounded very kind; "gone away for an all-day picnic, and left me alone to shift for myself.
Of its kind, "Tom Cringle's Log" is a veritable masterpiece. Humour and pathos and gorgeous descriptions are woven into a thrilling narrative. Scott wrote many other things beside "Tom Cringle," but only one story, "The Cruise of the Midge" , is in any way comparable with his first and most famous romance. I. The Quenching of the Torch
With his fan, Judge Priest made an angry sawing motion in the air, as though trying to fend off something disagreeable a memory, perhaps, or it might have been only a persistent midge. There were plenty of gnats and midges about, for by now even so soon the dew was dried.
In regard to his relationship with Nature he is like the finely sensitive and cultured artist-midge would be in regard to a man the midge who, through understanding the inner soul and character of the man, was able to read the expression on his features and see their beauty.
"But I can't!" said Midge, looking perfectly hopeless; "these pieces are all brownish and greenish and I don't know what they are." "I see," said Delight, her eyes sparkling; "you must find a face, or something that you can tell what it is, and start from that." "But there isn't any face here," said Midget; "here's one eye, if it is an eye!" "Begin with that," advised Miss Hart.
Her tumbling, curly hair, which was everlastingly escaping from its ribbon, had gained for her the title of Mops or Mopsy. Midge and Midget had clung to her from babyhood, because she was an active and energetic child, and so quick of motion that she seemed to dart like a midge from place to place. She never did anything slowly.
So Midge scampered across the street and rang the Spencer's door bell. "Won't you come over?" she said, as soon as she saw Delight. "It's an Ourday, and we're having such fun!" "No, thank you," said Delight; "you don't need me when you have Gladys." "Don't be silly!" said Midget. "What's the reason I can't play with you both? Come on." "Oh, I don't want to come," said Delight pettishly.
There are good people like that, only too happy to serve science with resounding appellations that might come from Timbuktu; they cannot name you a midge without striking terror into you.
She entered enough into the state of affairs to see that the troublesome child could hardly be expelled, and she was too happy and too much amused to care much about the annoyance. There was magnanimity enough about her not to mind midge bites, and certainly this summer was exceptionally delightful with all the pleasures of wealth, and very few of its drawbacks.
I give them back all their visual properties, and turn them with their full etheric blaze on the object under examination. Great as that achievement is, I deny that it is amazing. It may amaze a Papuan to see his eyelash magnified to the size of a wire, or an uneducated Englishman to see a cheese-mite magnified to the size of a midge.
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