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And when he was ready to damn her because she was a woman, he melted, and could have wept because she was a Beaver. Poor little girl; one day to be called a vesper Vole, the next to be forgotten altogether, the next to be remembered after this fashion.
I remember one evening, in especial. The rich twilight had gathered over us, and we sat by a slender and soft rivulet, overshadowed by some stunted yet aged trees. We had both, before she spoke, been silent for several minutes; and only when, at rare intervals, the birds sent from the copse that backed us a solitary and vesper note of music, was the stillness around us broken.
Yet everywhere the slow movements, the faded, tranquil colors, dull blue garments, dusky red tiles, deep bronze-green foliage overhanging a vista of subdued white and gray, consorted with the spindling shadows and low-streaming vesper light. Keepers of humble shops lounged in the open air with their gossips, smoking bright pipes of the Yunnan white copper, nodding and blinking gravely.
Francis in poverty, liberty, and the silent struggle for eternal bliss, everything which he described with fervid eloquence, increased the tumult in the young knight's deeply agitated soul. The vesper bells had already died away, yet Heinz was still listening eagerly to the aged Minorite, who was now relating the story of St.
It is plain to be seen that great good was accomplished in the community by this pair of Owls and their young, for the evil effects of the rodents in life must have far overbalanced the good service of the one useful Vesper Sparrow. A Seldom Recognised Blessing. There are some large predatory birds which destroy the lives of many game birds and others of the weaker species.
Brave as a lion with the proud, gentle as a lamb with the weak and defenceless, such was Simon de Montfort, an embodiment of true greatness the union of strength with love. Both Martin and Hubert were fortunate in their new lord. "There sounds the vesper bell. Wilt thou with me to the chapel?" said the prior. Thither both earl and prior proceeded.
Chee and Chirk and Chirp looked much awed, and waved their little pink clover sunbonnets helplessly in the air till Father Cricky said he did wish they would stop, it kept him from seeing the music he was studying for the Marsh Grass Vesper Quartette. "What is it, Father?" called Chee, who was always curious. "It's a Cantata," said Mr. Cricky. Chee nudged Chirk and whispered: "Say, what's that?"
Francis in poverty, liberty, and the silent struggle for eternal bliss, everything which he described with fervid eloquence, increased the tumult in the young knight's deeply agitated soul. By Georg Ebers The vesper bells had already died away, yet Heinz was still listening eagerly to the aged Minorite, who was now relating the story of St.
"Most certainly, sir!" His affirmation suggested a long personal acquaintance with such matters. "They always begin at five!" Jane gave him a quick, twinkling glance, but only added: "I thought the vesper service might be cooler, and a pleasanter drive. We ought to start a little after four, don't you think so? And we'll take Bip, and Dale." "I wouldn't stop there," Brent moodily suggested.
Faintly, as the distant vesper sounds upon the cooling eve, comes the answer: "Who and what art thou? What canst thou see? What delectable blessing does Nature vouchsafe to the pure in heart?" We tremble with the awful, yet thrilling, revelation. We know dimly, yet fail to realize in our outward consciousness the full import thereof.
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