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Updated: May 8, 2025
"'It is not the color that commendeth a good painter," read the gentleman pensioner, "'but the good countenance; nor the cutting that valueth the diamond, but the virtue; nor the gloze of the tongue that tryeth a friend, but the faith,"
"You're a good friend, Miss Ross. I had occasion to think so once before now I'm pretty sure of it. What's the sayin' 'Time tryeth thingummy'?" "Troth?" Jan suggested. "That's it. 'Time tryeth troth. I never was any good at quotations and things.
A grey old sun-dial dominated the central sward, and we moved towards it instinctively, as the most human thing visible. An antique motto ran round it, and with eyes and fingers we struggled at the decipherment. "TIME: TRYETH: TROTHE:" spelt out Harold at last. "I wonder what that means?"
Tired at last, we strolled back to the old sundial, and Harold, who never relinquished a problem unsolved, began afresh, rubbing his finger along the faint incisions, "Time tryeth trothe. Please, I want to know what that means." Medea's face drooped low over the sun-dial, till it was almost hidden in her fingers. "That's what I'm here for," she said presently, in quite a changed, low voice.
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