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Updated: June 4, 2025
If you can be blind and deaf to other people's faults and speak only pleasant things." "Papa," said Phil, in the pause that followed, hiding his face on his father's shoulder and speaking with a tremble in his voice, "I'm mighty sorry I did so many bad things to-day: broke the music-box, and ran away with Elsie, and mortified the family name, begging on the streets.
So that which the placid moon shone down upon was the break-up of the great Simiacine scheme. Victor Durnovo had not come off so badly. He had the larger half of the men by his side. He had all the finest crop the trees had yielded but he had yet to reckon with high Heaven. We shut our hearts up nowadays, Like some old music-box that plays Unfashionable airs.
To console himself, the boy traded for a music-box, which he set going with a long brass lever. Its various tunes were picked in holes on circular steel sheets, which were fed into the box and set whirling with the lever. At night when Larmy wasn't enjoying what David called a spook-fest, the boy would sit in the office by the hour and listen to his music-box.
The people consider one a music-box to wind up at their pleasure! A pest on it all!" The two men quickened their footsteps, hurrying down the long corridor, and presently a door shut behind them. "There thank heaven!" cried Ritter, "Around to the left now, Velasco, and then at the top of the stairs is my den. Let me go first and open the door."
They were somewhat like Avrillia's children, only quite foreign-looking, with green and red and yellow kerchiefs. The organ-man was not so large as Yassuh, and the monkey was about the size of a small spider. As for the organ, it looked strangely like the music-box that belonged to Sara's dolls. Sara had never before seen a city simply swarming with fairies.
For my part, says he, 'I want to worship in the good old way my fathers and grandfathers worshiped in, and, unless my feelin's change very considerable, I shall have to withdraw from this church if any such Satan's music-box is set up in this holy place.
At a distance, in their homely grey tunics, with their bullet-shaped heads close-cropped and the hairs standing out like the needles of a cylinder of a music-box, they had the appearance of hard citizens who had become rather sullen convicts. Some wore spectacles. A closer view revealed that most of them were contented, and some actually cheerful.
"Why yes quadrilles, I believe, are admissible." "I wish we had some music, we might waltz anytime," and she pats her little foot on the floor; "just you and I together." "Well, I shall have to buy a music-box, and we can dance out on the lawn after the manner of the German and French peasants." She gives such a lovely, rippling laugh that he indulges in a still fonder squeeze.
She raised him in her arms an' held him close. A great music-box in a corner began to play: "'O tannenbaum! O tannenbaum! wie grun sind deine blaetter! "Then with laughter an' merry jests we emptied the pack, an' gathered from the tree whose fruit has fed the starving human heart for more than a thousand years, an' how it filled those friends o' mine!
You don't shave half as often as you used to, do you? No, nowadays you think you have me safe and don't have to bother about being attractive. If I had a music-box I could put your face into it and play all sorts of tunes, only I prefer to look at it. You are a slattern and a jay-bird and a joy forever.
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