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Martindale returned then, sat down on his bench, and, smoothing his leather apron, resumed his work with composure. "I fink," said The Seraph, "I hear Mrs. Handsomebody calling. I better be off." "Bide a little while," said Martindale, "and I'll tell you a first rate story about birds too. Then you'll forget your fright, little master, eh?"
Who but this dark spirit, forever wooing the powers of darkness, and of darkness the most sullen, praying to Nemesis alone, could, with such lamentable lack of faith in the purity and soundness of human affections, have given utterance to a sentiment like this: "O love! no habitant of earth thou art, An unseen seraph we believe in thee"? or the following:
Louis de Soyecourt was a subtle little man, freakish and amiable, and, on a minute scale, handsome. He reminded people of a dissipated elf; his excesses were notorious, yet always he preserved the face of an ecclesiastic and the eyes of an aging seraph; and bodily there was as yet no trace of the corpulence which marred his later years. To-night he slept soundly.
It was four weeks now since she had felt the wide wind upon her face; four weeks pleasantly occupied in engineering four boys through the measles; and if ever a sick child had the capacity for making of himself a seraph upon earth it was Moppet.
They comprehended the nakedness of their souls; they were able to measure the poverty of their light by comparing it a humbling task with the halo of the Seraph. A passionate desire to plunge back into the mire of earth and suffer trial took possession of them, trial through which they might victoriously utter at the sacred gates the words of that radiant Seraph.
Angel and I slipped into our places at the long book-littered table, on either side of The Seraph.
He's wather a dear ole worm, an' it seems a shame to wun a hook frew him." "Child, it shall not be done," consoled the Bishop. "Keep your worm, and, when we get to the river-bank, we'll introduce him to the country worms, and maybe he'll like them so well he'll marry and settle down there for the rest of his days." "If he could see a lady-worm he'd like," stipulated The Seraph.
Raimented with intolerable light The snow-peaks stand above thee, row on row Arising, each a seraph in his might; An organ each of varied stop doth blow.
Therefore, when Ezra Baroni deferentially approached with, "The Most Noble the Marquis of Rockingham, I think?" the Seraph, instead of leaving the stranger there discomfited, nodded and paused with his inconsequent good nature; thinking how much less bosh it would be if everybody could call him, like his family and his comrades, "Rock." "That is my name," he answered. "I do not know you.
"I promise you that you shall always have it from me," said Keith. "Thank you," she said again, quite earnestly, looking him calmly in the eyes. "Then we shall always be friends." "Always." Just then Stirling came up and with a very flattering speech asked Miss Huntington to sing. "I hear you sing like a seraph," he declared.
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