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Updated: June 26, 2025
I began to experience that sense of grandeur which one feels when he looks at a great mountain or a mighty river. Beside London Paris becomes a toy, a pretty plaything. And I must own that before I left the world's metropolis I discovered much there that was beautiful.
Nothing was going on, not even the most leisurely of occupations, like baiting trawls or mending nets, or repairing lobster pots; the very boats seemed to be taking an afternoon nap in the sun. I could hardly discover a distant sail as I looked seaward, except a weather-beaten lobster smack, which seemed to have been taken for a plaything by the light airs that blew about the bay.
Knowledge! It is his plaything. Say, you who think it so easy to climb into the judgment-seat above, can you tell me any thing of the beginning and the end? Nay, you're a dealer in ailings and cures: what is life, and what is death? Why does the eagle live so long, and why is the time of the butterfly so short?
It was most exhilarating. "I soon became aware that the beetle was once more at my elbow. "'There are some beautiful toys here, I said. "'Well, yes, he replied, 'and some odd-looking ones too. You see, whatever has been really used by any child as a plaything gets a right to come down here in the end; and there is some very queer company, I assure you. Look there.
But there are ways to avoid such dangers, and here is one. Give a help, you, my friend Stuart, who are the Hercules of the party." A huge grating, which he endeavoured to lift, was a mere plaything in the hands of the burly Englishman. It was a big grating above an open sewer, and heavy enough to try the strength even of Stuart, yet it yielded to the first tug he gave, and lifted upwards.
Reform is no plaything; it cannot be achieved by listening to the well-meant advice of friends who know no higher goal than personal success, who have no glimmering of the motives that impel a great soul, who would fain tell the thunderbolt where it shall strike. Every great man lives alone; he has no friends and no disciples.
Here a man is but a thing of naught, an insect creeping upon the ground, a mere speck, the veritable plaything of chance. Reynolds, however, was well hardened to desperate situations. Often in France he had been alone in "No Man's Land," with death close at hand. He had never flinched then, and he was determined that he would not do so now.
"You have misunderstood me," he said, "if you think I am a man to be made a plaything of in the hands of a coquette!" My aunt interposed once more, with a resolution which I had not expected from her. "Captain Stanwick," she said, "you are forgetting yourself." He paid no heed to her; he persisted in speaking to me. "It is my misfortune to love you," he burst out. "My whole heart is set on you.
Already you had the best of him, his heart, to throw away at a word as if it were naught merely a plaything, a tawdry gaud the best and tenderest and noblest heart that ever beat! and for a silly quarrel, and for your peevish vanity, you consented to humiliate his honest pride and to hold him up to ridicule, jilted on his wedding-day.
They lacked that subtile something which was necessary to minister to the peculiar genius of the child. Among the foreign toys there were some in which there was concealed a secret spring which seemed to impart life to the otherwise dead plaything. Wind them up and they would move of their own energy.
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