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He was employed in counting some few and paltry coins, which, though an easy matter to ascertain their value, he told and retold, as if the act could increase the amount. "There must be some mistake here, Alice," he said in a low and muttered tone: "we can't be so low you know I had two pounds in the drawer but Monday, and now Alice, you must have stolen some of the money curse you."
'Twas but a rumor floating back to us of how La Salle had reached the mouth of a great river flowing into the South Sea, and among the few who accompanied him was De Artigny. I remember yet how strangely my heart throbbed as I heard the brief tale retold, and someone read the names from a slip of paper.
But perhaps no story has possessed a greater fascination than that of the lost Pegleg Mine. The story of this lost mine has been told and retold with many variations for the past seventy years, and more than a score of persons have lost their lives in attempting to rediscover it.
And Polly related something of her unhappy stay in the house on Chestnut Street. She had not finished when David called up to know if Polly and Leonora could be spared. He was alone in the office, and wanted them. The lad was eager for Polly's story, and much of it had to be retold. Then he disclosed news of his own. "We're going to move up to Uncle David's the first of next week.
The story of the opera seemed to interest the young mason especially. He retold it minutely for Adelle's benefit, offering amusing explanations of its mythological mysteries. "But how did you happen to go to the opera?" Adelle asked. "Well," he said in vague diffidence, "I was feeling pretty good by that time, and I seen the poster.
The newspapers, not only of Chicago, but of every city in the Union, exploited him for "stories." The history of his corner, how he had effected it, its chronology, its results, were told and retold, till his name was familiar in the homes and at the firesides of uncounted thousands.
The letters read and pondered over awhile, tongues began to be loosened, and soon all over the ship was heard the buzz of conversation. Chums told each other the little items of news that to them seemed the most important things in the world. And after all had been told and retold, the men gathered in groups and discussed their past months' experiences. Just think!
Like the myth and fairy story it throws light on the mind and character of the age that produced it; it is part of the history of the unfolding of the human mind in the world; and, above all, it is interesting. I. HIAWATHA From "Indian Myths." By Ellen Emerson. IV. SIR GALAHAD Alfred Tennyson. V. RUSTEM AND SOHRAB From "The Epic of Kings. Stories Retold from Firdusi." By Helen Zimmern.
Of late her grandmother had often addressed her in an unusual way, more as a woman than as a child; and, only the night before, had retold the old story of her own sister Mary, who, many years before, had married a man of fifty. He had worshipped her, and had died, after a decent interval, leaving her a large fortune.
It is the old story very closely followed, and beautifully retold, with a hundred memories of ancient poets: Homer, Dante, Theocritus, as well as of Apuleius. I have named Mr. Bridges here because his poems are probably all but unknown to readers well acquainted with many other English writers of late days.
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