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Updated: July 21, 2025
"I think that all these Misses Bell are pleased to be here, and I should not be astonished if some day they all began to sing together. But you must not admire them all equally. Reserve your purest and most fervent praise for this one." And striking with her finger a dark, bare bell which gave a faint sound: "This one," she said, "is a holy village-bell of the fifth century.
"I think that all these Misses Bell are pleased to be here, and I should not be astonished if some day they all began to sing together. But you must not admire them all equally. Reserve your purest and most fervent praise for this one." And striking with her finger a dark, bare bell which gave a faint sound: "This one," she said, "is a holy village-bell of the fifth century.
She certainly looked the part to perfection; and it never occurred to any of them that a cat, with kittens, could not possibly have left a widow behind her. The ceremony was most impressive; the bereaved kittens were loud in their grief; when, suddenly, the village-bell tolled for the death of an old gentleman whom everybody loved, and the comedy became a tragedy.
I ask myself, If these old gentlemen had plunged into the whirlpool of a city five-and-fifty years ago, would they have been still adrift upon this tide of time, where we are all serving our apprenticeships? and if so, would they have worn the same calm and cheerful equanimity amid the harvests of traffic or the blight of a panic? and if not adrift, would they have carried a clearer and more justifying record to the hearing of the Great Court than they will carry hence when our village-bell doles out the funeral march for them?
"Mither's; and she mourns me dead!" thought he; but it was only the far-off village-bell, which sounded like the echo of music he had heard lang syne, but might never hear again. "D'ye think I'm not alive?" tolled the bell. "I sit all day in my little wooden temple, brooding over the sins of the parish." "A brazen lie!" cried Robin. "Nay, the truth, as I'm a living soul!
"I think that all these Misses Bell are pleased to be here, and I should not be astonished if some day they all began to sing together. But you must not admire them all equally. Reserve your purest and most fervent praise for this one." And striking with her finger a dark, bare bell which gave a faint sound: "This one," she said, "is a holy village-bell of the fifth century.
"Mither's; and she mourns me dead!" thought he; but it was only the far-off village-bell, which sounded like the echo of music he had heard lang syne, but might never hear again. "D'ye think I'm not alive?" tolled the bell. "I sit all day in my little wooden temple, brooding over the sins of the parish." "A brazen lie!" cried Robin. "Nay, the truth, as I'm a living soul!
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