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Updated: June 22, 2025
There was not a soul in Randolph Crescent, nor a soul in Queensferry Street; in this outdoor privacy and the sense of escape, John took heart again; and with a pathetic sense of leave-taking, he even ventured up the lane and stood a while, a strange peri at the gates of a quaint paradise, by the west end of St. George's Church. They were singing within; and by a strange chance the tune was "St.
Nan wouldn't allow him near her, and flapped her fan vigorously whenever he was in sight; which cut him to the heart, and made him feel like the Peri shut out from Paradise. Of course his mates jeered at him, and nothing but the unquenchable jollity of his nature kept him from despair. Emil was resplendent in his new uniform, and danced with an abandon which only sailors know.
Doris Leighton, with a rather flushed face, leaned forward as Patricia spoke and touched her on the shoulder. "I must congratulate you, Peri Banou," she said with sharp gayety. "Everyone is saying that the Princess your sister is the clou of the ball.", Patricia had an uneasy sense of insincerity in the light tone, but a swift glance into the wide eyes of the smiling Doris reassured her.
In the Polynesian language araea, the "red earth" of the tale, is the same as vari, and in Indonesia there were the words fare or pare, in Malay padi or peri, and in Malagasy vari, all meaning rice. A Rarotongan legend relates that in Hawaiki two new fruits were found, and the vari discarded. These fruits were the breadfruit and the horse-chestnut, neither of which is a native of Polynesia.
Straight from prison to paradise. That was what the morning's work meant for him, and he could not think with dry eyes of the peri who had brought him there.
Shakspeare was played to empty benches; the Peri and Gisele fill the houses. We repeat, therefore, since such is the bent of public appetite, let it be gratified in the least objectionable way. Let us have a royal academy of dancing. We shall easily find some Earl of Westmoreland to compose its ballets, and lady patronesses to give an annual ball for the benefit of the institution.
Then was the time. It was work performed. If you are feeding me now for work performed, why did you not feed me then when I needed it? Not one word in "The Ring of Bells," nor in "The Peri and the Pearl" has been changed. No; you're not feeding me now for work performed. You are feeding me because everybody else is feeding me and because it is an honor to feed me.
Doubtless he had also counted on the efficacy of the old fable of the Peri at the Gate one look had been sufficient to turn us into arrant conspirators; to gain an entrance into that tranquil paradise any ruse would serve. "Here's a church he said nothing about a church, did he?"
On the occasion alluded to, among the number of victims was the only daughter of the aged Huzareh peasants, who was considered amongst her tribe as a perfect Peri 'A maid with a face like the moon, scented like musk, a ravisher of hearts, delighting the soul, seducing the senses, and beautiful as the full moon, She was placed for security behind one of the best mounted of the robbers, whilst the other helpless wretches were driven unresistingly before the horsemen like a flock of sheep, till the abductors reached their own independent territory.
‘And mine,’ added Mr. Simpson. ‘Look at his compositions,’ resumed the knocker. ‘To be sure,’ said Simpson, with confidence. ‘Look at Don Juan,’ replied Mr. Septimus Hicks. ‘Julia’s letter,’ suggested Miss Matilda. ‘Can anything be grander than the Fire Worshippers?’ inquired Miss Julia. ‘To be sure,’ said Simpson. ‘Or Paradise and the Peri,’ said the old beau.
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