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Updated: May 18, 2025
For this is now the twentieth year since I went thence and am gone from my own native land, but never yet heard I evil or despiteful word from thee; nay, if any other haply upbraided me in the palace-halls, whether brother or sister of thine or brother's fair-robed wife, or thy mother but thy father is ever kind to me as he were my own then wouldst thou soothe such with words and refrain them, by the gentleness of thy spirit and by thy gentle words.
And so Walter Harding went on to his business; while Tom Leslie, the member of the party who was "peckish," accompanied the two girls, who were decidedly hungry, to that over-gilt and tawdry caricature upon some of the palace-halls of the Old World, known as "Taylor's Saloon."
How he must have laughed, this stately soldier banqueting in his palace-halls, at the thought of the night when he had been so thankful for that bit of bread and drop of wine snatched from the grudging Pisan!
Surely not the sight of the funeral train, nor of the urn crowned with cypress, of nothing which is associated with death or weakness in any shape; but the sight of gayest festivals, or the paraphernalia of palace-halls, the vision of some youthful maiden of transcendent beauty crowned with an orange-wreath, within hearing of marriage-bells and the whisperings of holy love, or the aspirations of the dance and the endless breathings of triumphant music.
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