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Updated: May 4, 2025
"'Of course we are happy, he used to say: 'For you are the gift of the sun I have loved so long and so well. And my grandfather Titbottom would lay his hand so tenderly upon the golden hair of his young bride, that you could fancy him a devout Parsee caressing sunbeams.
"That was a miracle," interrupted Prue. "Madam, it was a miracle," replied Titbottom, "and for that one sight I am devoutly grateful for my grandfather's gift. I saw, that although a flower may have lost its hold upon earthly moisture, it may still bloom as sweetly, fed by the dews of heaven." The door closed, and he was gone.
My dear Titbottom, I have long belonged to that pleasure party, although I never heard it called by so pleasant a name before." My companion said only: "If you would like to join, I will introduce you to the party. I cannot go, but they are all on board." I answered nothing; but Titbottom drew me along. We took a boat, and put off to the most extraordinary craft I had ever seen.
"One went over the side of a ship, and the other out of a third story window," said Titbottom, fitting a broad blade between his thumbs and blowing a demoniacal blast. "And I know one proprietor who resides upon his estates constantly," continued he. "Who is that?"
A group of idle gazers was collected to watch the arrival. The little vessel furled her sails and drifted slowly landward, and as she was of very light draft, she came close to the shelving shore. A long plank was put out from her side, and the debarkation commenced. My grandfather Titbottom stood looking on to see the passengers descend.
"Do you know," said he, after a long pause, "that I fancy my castles lie just beyond those distant hills. At all events, I can see them distinctly from their summits." He smiled quietly as he spoke, and it was then I asked: "But, Titbottom, have you never discovered the way to them?" "Dear me! yes," answered he, "I know the way well enough; but it would do no good to follow it.
He still looked from the window, and I said: "Titbottom, I did not know that you used glasses. I have never seen you wearing spectacles." "No, I don't often wear them. I am not very fond of looking through them. But sometimes an irresistible necessity compels me to put them on, and I cannot help seeing." Titbottom sighed. "Is it so grievous a fate to see?" inquired I.
As we strolled along, picking wild flowers, for it was in summer, I was thinking what a fine day it was for a trip to Spain, when Titbottom suddenly exclaimed: "Thank God! I own this landscape." "You," returned I. "Certainly," said he. "Why," I answered, "I thought this was part of Bourne's property?" Titbottom smiled. "Does Bourne own the sun and sky? Does Bourne own that sailing shadow yonder?
Yet, I am always glad when Minim Sculpin, our neighbor, who knows that my opportunities are few, comes to ask me to step round and see the family portraits. The Sculpins, I think, are a very old family. Titbottom says they date from the deluge. But I thought people of English descent preferred to stop with William the Conqueror, who came from France.
He was drowned in love; seeing, as usual, not what really was, but what he fancied. He lived so exclusively in his castle, that he forgot the office down town, and one morning there came a fall, and Stunning was smashed." Titbottom arose, and stooping over, contemplated the landscape, with his head down between his legs. "It's quite a new effect, so," said the nimble book-keeper.
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