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Updated: May 9, 2025
Out in the cold, With a thin-worn fold Of withered gold Around her rolled, Hangs in the air the weary moon. She is old, old, old; And her bones all cold, And her tales all told, And her things all sold, And she has no breath to croon. Like a castaway clout, She is quite shut out! She might call and shout, But no one about Would ever call back, "Who's there?"
"It was this I had left behind," he said, showing the thin-worn gold disc. "It is well, a talisman of mine, a sort of mascot. I was nearly going without it. Rather than do that I would stay at home." Dupontel laughed. "You are superstitious, then?" he said lightly. "It is not much to look at, your talisman." The Prince shook his head; it seemed impossible to make him smile that morning.
And now, by the help of his fragments of cup, he set to hack-sawing, breaking, tearing this into strips, no easy thing, in spite of the thin-worn condition of the can: but finally had six strips.
Then with a shivering smile he rose. He had a thin-worn dressing-gown over his night-shirt, and looked a thread of a man. "You take me for a miser?" he said, trembling, and stood expecting an answer. Crawford was bewildered: what business had he there? "I am not a miser!" resumed the laird. "A man may count his money without being a miser!"
I dare not say there was no divine reality concerned in his utterance, for Gibbie saw many a glimmer through the rents in his logic, and the thin-worn patches of his philosophy; but it was not such glimmers that fettered the regards of the audience, but the noisy flow and false eloquence of the preacher. In proportion to the falsehood in us are we exposed to the falsehood in others.
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