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Updated: May 22, 2025
No "Rajah" and "Peri" with glossy coats and arching necks came to take Lilias and Dulcie from school, and give them the delight of a ride over the hills, though Milner arrived with the car, and told them that he was to fetch their three younger brothers on the following morning. The Chase seemed lonely and deserted with nobody to welcome them except the servants.
Having felt that something was wrong she twisted her tail round me, stopped instantaneously and began to kneel down carefully. But my natural weight was too much for the thin tail of this kind animal. Peri did not lose hold of me, but, having at last knelt down, she moaned plaintively, though discreetly, thinking probably that she had nearly lost her tail through being so generous.
"Did you, Violet?" said he, forgetting for a moment his nonsense. Then he continued: "The publisher thinks that with some padding of a general and attractive nature, the subject might be made into a book. Why, therefore, should not our fortune be made at once, and the gates of Bayswater thrown open to the Peri? I do believe I could make an interesting book.
The former look upon "home" what a world does the very name convey to one who has never known what it is! much as Moore's "Peri" regarded Paradise, and as the lost angels may wistfully think of the heaven from which they were expelled.
Do me the pleasure, therefore, of nursing my infant for a few moments. "My mother consented with pleasure; and the Queen, in return for her complaisance, said to her, "'Whenever you have any sorrow or any desire, come to the foot of a palm-tree, cut a leaf off it, burn it, and call for me I am named the Peri Malikatada and I will haste immediately to your assistance.
The day after tomorrow I have my sixth concert, and a month afterwards I start for home. Shall I hear from you soon? A thousand greetings. Your R. W. I returned here yesterday from the Dusseldorf Musical Festival, tired and dull. Hiller, who conducted the whole, had invited me, and it interested me to go through the whole thing for once, to hear "Paradise and the Peri," and to applaud Jenny Lind.
There was no response, nor had I perceived any gleam of light from the windows as I approached, and I was considering the advisability of trying the laboratory on the next floor, when footsteps on the stone stairs and familiar voices gladdened my ear. "Hallo, Berkeley!" said Thorndyke, "do we find you waiting like a Peri at the gates of Paradise?
Lilias, squatting on the fender, stretching two cold hands towards the blazing sticks, looked up brightly. "We're riding! Astley and Elton are to fetch Rajah and Peri over for us. Grandfather said they needed exercise. I don't suppose he'd have thought of it, only Dulcie wrote to Cousin Clare and begged her to ask him. Won't it be just splendiferous?
I cannot expand the subject, but in the same way the better religions have had a great physical advantage, if I may say so, over the worse. But under the higher religions there is no similar slavery and no similar terror. The belief of the Greek eis oianos aristos amúnesthai perì pátrês;
As his reward he was made Governor of La Mancha in Spain, and no place could have been found with associations more suitable to this Irishman who turned his back upon his fortunes at Peri. At La Mancha he lived for many years, writing a deal of Latin verse, and corresponding with many distinguished men in England upon matters of the intellect.
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