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Updated: May 9, 2025
She, the oldest of painters, that hung the earth, sea, and sky of the antediluvian world with landscapes, waterscapes, and cloudscapes manifold and beautiful, when as yet the human hand had never lifted a pencil to imitate her skill; she, with the colors wherewith she dyed the fleecy clouds that spread their purple drapery over the first sunset, and in which she dipped the first rainbow hung in heaven, and the first rose that breathed and blushed on earth; she that has embellished every day, since the Sun first opened its eye upon the world, with a new gallery of paintings for every square mile of land and sea, and new dissolving views for every hour she, with all these artistic antecedents, tastes, and faculties, comes modestly into the conservatory of the floriculturist, and takes lessons of him in shaping and tinting plants and flowers which the Great Master said were "all very good" on the sixth-day morning of the creation!
My spirit longed to be among friends, and to be at some meeting with them on the first day, which now drew on, this being the sixth-day night. Accordingly, having ordered my horse to be made ready betimes, I got up in the morning and made myself ready also.
"And she married an Englishman, didn't she?" "Yes," he answered with a bewildered air. "Yes, she did." "Now, Friend Deering," she cried, shaking her finger at him earnestly, "just suppose that Kitty's Englishman had come to thy house for shelter last Sixth-day, when it was so cold and stormy that thee would feel bad if the house cat was left outside? Suppose he had come asking for shelter?
What have you to answer to this charge?" "'Tis true," faltered the girl in a low tone. "When did it occur?" "Last Sixth-day." "Which was Friday, the first day of this month. Was your father at home at the time?" "Yes," answered Peggy quickly, "but he knew naught of it." "And did you not know that it was a misdemeanor to succor one of the enemy?" "Yes, friend; I knew it."
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