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Leandro turned towards them to pay his compliments to the Contessa, and possibly in the hope of being allowed to read his copy of verses. But here again mortification awaited him. "What, Aesop, Leandro! What put it into your head to choose the old story-teller for a model? You look the part to perfection, it is true; but what is that thing you have got in your hand?"
Hence the story-teller himself his manner of telling, his reactions to what he tells, his sympathy, humor, and intelligence are part of what he expresses. He himself is partly theme. In the epic form of poetry, the poet has, moreover, an opportunity for a more direct mode of self-revelation, an opportunity for comment and judgment upon the life which he portrays.
Blihos-Bliheris is, we are told, so entrancing a story-teller that none at court could ever weary of listening to his words. The natural result, which here does not immediately concern us, was that Arthur's knights undertook the quest, and Gawain achieved it.
How different was his daughter, Louisa, the keen observer of life and manners; the witty story-teller with the pictorial mind; always sympathetic, practical, helpful the mainstay of her family, a pillar of support to her friends; forgetting the care of her own soul in her interest for the general welfare; heedless of her own advantage, and thereby obtaining for herself as a gift from heaven, the highest of all advantages, and the greatest of all rewards!
The river-driver chose to spend his idle hours in crude, rough sprightliness; the salmon-fisher loved to lie upon the shore and listen to the village story-teller, almost official when successful, who played upon the credulity and imagination of his listeners. The river-driver loved excitement for its own sake, and behind his boisterousness there was little evil.
Picotee did not know what to say to this; and Ethelberta left the room to see about her duties as public story-teller, in which capacity she had undertaken to appear again this very evening. London was illuminated by the broad full moon.
"You don't seem to be a success as a story-teller," said the bachelor suddenly from his corner. The aunt bristled in instant defence at this unexpected attack. "It's a very difficult thing to tell stories that children can both understand and appreciate," she said stiffly. "I don't agree with you," said the bachelor. "Perhaps you would like to tell them a story," was the aunt's retort.
To the dramatist nothing is easier than to print in the middle of his playbill, 'Forty years are here supposed to have elapsed; or 'Scene I.: A drawing-room in Mayfair; Scene II.: Greenland. But the story-teller has to describe how these little changes are effected, without being able to take his readers into his confidence.
"It is useless to raise a cloud of evasion before the sun of your penetrating intellect," replied the story-teller. "The eleventh day of the existing moon was its inauspicious date." "That being yesterday?
Each maid as she departed once more took her oath to remain pure until she should meet her husband. I: A Legend of Devil's Lake AFTER the death of Smoky Day, old Weyuha was regarded as the greatest story-teller among the Wahpeton Sioux.
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