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Updated: June 2, 2025
And as I looked he glided down from his starry throne with an easy swinging motion, like a soap-bubble settling to the earth. And the star came and poised among the branches of the palm-tree over the tank, opalescent, unearthly, heart shaking. His face was as the face of the prophet, whose name be blessed, and his limbs were as the limbs of the Hameshaspenthas of old.
They all started visibly and their dream-world of desert and rose-red mountains and battle-fields and leaping flames shivered like a soap-bubble at the touch of a careless hand. Lilámani rose, gentle and dignified. "Thank you, Roger. Tell Sir Nevil I am coming." Roy suppressed a groan. The mere mention of Aunt Jane made one feel vaguely guilty.
"What are you laughing at?" asked the Comte de Bauvan. "At a soap-bubble which has burst," interposed Madame du Gua, gaily. "The marquis, if we are now to believe him, is astonished that his heart ever beat the faster for that girl who presumes to call herself Mademoiselle de Verneuil. You know who I mean." "That girl!" echoed the count. "Madame, the author of a wrong is bound to repair it.
Then, lo and behold! a marvellous thing happened; for the palace instantly began to grow for all the world like a soap-bubble, until it stood in the moonlight gleaming and glistening like snow, the windows bright with the lights of a thousand wax tapers, and the sound of music and voices and laughter coming from within.
"Here comes Margy with the cakes!" exclaimed Rose. "Now we'll have the soap-bubble party." "But don't get any soap on your cake, or it won't taste nice," warned Mother Bunker. "Now play nicely. Has the postman been past yet?" "Not yet, Mother," answered Russ. "Do you think he is going to bring you a letter?" "He may, yes."
She went, to quote her own words, 'all of a fluster like, and near busted out cryin'. It was like a dear lovin' little child comin' 'ome, and made me feel that queer you might have knocked me down with a soap-bubble!
Then Perk had another gripping fear which he imagined must have also seized his companion that the chief object of their concern might be a passenger aboard that ship, heading once more across the state to Miami and that in consequence, all of Jack's carefully laid plans would meet the same untimely fate as befalls an ambitious soap-bubble when struck by a stray puff of air.
She desired to be the first to point out to Orion, from Philip's point of view, that life was a post, a duty; and then, if his heart seemed opened to this admonition, then but no, this must be all that could pass between them then all must be at an end, extinct, dead, like the fires in a sunken raft, like a soap-bubble that the wind has burst, like an echo that has died away all over and utterly gone.
The Wind sighed: "Pass away, ye dead! now the sun is going to rise!" The first ray fell on the Dryad. Her form was irradiated in changing colors, like the soap-bubble when it is bursting and becomes a drop of water; like a tear that falls and passes away like a vapor. Poor Dryad! Only a dew-drop, only a tear, poured upon the earth, and vanished away!
A rhinoceros charging a ball of thistledown or a soap-bubble, and causing it to float away with the wind it created, would not have been a more Iudicrous spectacle. From my boyhood, when I first began to observe birds, I started with the imbibed notion that those which paired for life were the rare exceptions the dove that rhymed with love, the eagle, and perhaps half a dozen more.
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