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It was as if all the date palms bore their fruit together, and in all the desert places water-springs burst forth. But presently a figure came towards her, walking heavily; and all the dates shrivelled upon the palms, and all the springs dried up. Sorrow and terror were there beside her. At this point in the diviner's prophecy Domini stopped him.
For there are shepherds their mothers bore beautiful and worthy the bed of the nymphs that dwell in the water-springs and woodlands.
Is he mightier than the thirty-one kings who fought against Israel and whom Joshua slew 'with the word of God'? Is he stronger than Sisera, who went out against Israel with nine hundred iron chariots, and yet met his death at the hands of a mere woman, the punishment for having withdrawn the use of the water-springs from the Israelites and prevented their wives from taking the prescribed ritual baths and thus from fulfilling their conjugal duty?
You discharge your poor dull apprentice the moment you find a clever one! 'And why not? I never was able to teach thee anything. 'Ah, Ned, there you are unkind indeed! said lady Margaret, with something in her voice that suggested the water-springs were swelling. 'My shamrock of four! said her husband in the tenderest tone, 'I but jested with thee.
At a long distance from the town I asked a small boy to climb over the palisade. "Not if you give me a packet of cigarettes!" he said. "The brigadier" in an awed whisper "he sees everything." Hearing that protective works of a new kind are being carried on at this moment, I walked yesterday to the bare slopes that lead down to the water-springs.
Who, indeed, in his first youth; youth, when the soul is nearer to the heaven from which it sprang, and its divine and primal longings are not all effaced by the sordid passions and petty cares that are begot in time? who is there in youth that has not nourished the belief that the universe has secrets not known to the common herd, and panted, as the hart for the water-springs, for the fountains that he hid and far away amidst the broad wilderness of trackless science?
Did he overestimate that immeasurable Love, the manifestation of which in his own heart so reached the hearts of others, revealing everywhere unsuspected fountains of feeling and secret longings after purity, as the rod of the diviner detects sweet, cool water-springs under the parched surfaces of a thirsty land?
Here and there water-springs, in a state of boiling heat, and incessantly emitting smoke and vapor, burst with immense noise from the earth, which burns and shakes beneath your feet. The heat of the atmosphere in the vicinity of the lagoons is almost intolerable, especially when the wind blows about you the fiery vapor, deeply impregnated with sulphur.
For truth, she thought, is better than hidden water-springs, and a sincerity even of stupidity more lovely than the fountain that gives flowers to the desert, wild red roses to the weary gold of sands. The wind roared again, howling to poor, shuddering Mayfair, and there came a step outside.
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