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A lady came on the same errand for the British prisoners in Turkey, and with a less but still a generous sum. The heroism, the generosity, the endurance and self-restraint and courtesy of these people would melt a pyramid to tears. Of course there are yellow dogs among 'em, here and there; but the genuine, thoroughbred English man or woman is the real thing one of the realest things in this world.
Joy laughed with the rest, and lunched sumptuously on the cakes the guests ought to have had, and thought for the thousandth time what an ideal mother-in-law was hers at the moment, and how many of the people in the world were the realest of real folks, and how much like Christmas every-day life was getting to be...
One must love him when one really knows him, mustn't one? Mrs. Upton, I've known Jack all my life and he is simply one of the noblest, deepest, realest people in the whole world." "I am sure of that." "Well, then, can't you help him?" Mary cried. "How can I help him? In what way?" Valerie asked, her grave smile fading. "With Imogen. It's that, you see, their alienation, that's breaking his heart.
To be sure, he had seen the bodily instrument by which she had been able somehow to express herself through look and word and gesture, but his mother herself, her thoughts, her consciousness, her love, her spirit, he never had seen and he never would see. She was the realest force in his life, but she was invisible.
The lust after perfection the realest peril of great souls was hers, and she was stung and humiliated by Mrs. Frankland's rebuke to her lack of faith, for the words so impressively spoken seemed to her like a divine message. The whole catalogue of worthies in the eleventh of Hebrews rose up to reprove her. "I suppose Mrs.
WARCHESTER, St. Andrew's Parish House, Sept. 23d. I don't think it matters what his real name is. I'd been thinking all along, that he was just a convenient fiction, useful for an address, and now he turns out about the realest person going.
This morning over his parsing he asked me- 'Mother, which is realest, what we touch or what we feel? knitting his brows fearfully when I did not catch his meaning, and going on- 'I mean is that fly as real as King David? and then as I was more puzzled he went on -'You see we only need just see that fly now with our outermost senses, and he will only live a little while, and nobody cares or will think of him any more, but everybody always does think, and feel, and care a great deal about King David. I told him, as the best answer I could make on the spur of the moment, that David was alive in Heaven, but he pondered in and broke out -'No, that's not it!
"Love, a phantom," laughs the mocking voice of the imperious Hortense I knew long ago; and the thrill of her laugh proves love the realest phantom life can know. Then the child Hortense becomes of a sudden the grown woman, grave and sweet, with eyes in the dark like stars, and strange, broken thoughts I had not dared to hope shining unspoken on her face.
Freddie did not quite understand this but he said "no" just to agree with Sandy. "And you know the big girl, Nellie, who always curled my hair without pulling it, she's gone away too, so maybe I'm your brother now," went on the little orphan. "Course you are!" spoke up Freddie manfully, throwing his arms around the other, "You're my twin brother too, 'cause that's the realest kind.
"My!" exclaimed the girl as they entered. It was a perfect fairyland to her. It was a story. It was a dream. "Now, we are going to have the realest, cutest, Christmas dinner you ever saw," said the lady, producing a steaming turkey from the warming oven. The girl danced in her glee and anticipation. "But first you must dress for dinner. We will go and see Santa Claus," smiled the foster-mother.
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