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Updated: May 7, 2025
Thorndyke's spirits sank lower. The air of the narrow under-ground corridor was cold and damp, and he quivered from head to foot. Branasko paused again in his walk towards the mysterious light. "It cannot be from the internal fires," said he, "for this light is white, and the glow of the fires is red."
The little child laid under the earth like the bulb of the lily, to see corruption and decay, would come forth, even as the spirit of the lilies came up out of the darkness and mold and decay of their tomb under-ground, and burst into the glory of their beautiful blossoms, the perfection of what the ugly brown bulb was meant to be.
Where is it but in our favored land that the father is allowed to pursue his own plan for the good of his family, and with his sons to labor in what profession he chooses and then enjoy the avails of his labor? The American Home is the abode of neatness, thrift and competence, not the wretched hut of the Greenlander or Caffrarian, or under-ground place of Kamschatka.
By its exterior beauty he gaineth the confidence of the unwary, and thus winneth countless thousands to his cause. And seest thou the depth to which it reaches, not six thou sand feet below us, but ten times six thousand feet, into the bowels of the earth?" Then could I see, at a glance, the whole under-ground dominions stretching their borders far, wide, and deep.
They had to cross the station by the under-ground passage and wait twenty minutes for a squalid, shambling local train which took them to Shawport, at the foot of the rise to Hillport. About three months after its rendering of Patience, the Bursley Amateur Operatic Society arranged to give a commemorative dance in the very scene of that histrionic triumph.
You see, William, there is no saying what new seeds may have been brought here by birds, or by the winds and waves." "But will those seeds grow?" "Yes, William; I have been told that seeds may remain hundreds of years under-ground, and come up afterwards when exposed to the heat."
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