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Updated: May 2, 2025
He had indeed, had a revelation of harmonious home-life such as he had not guessed existed in a work-a-day world of the music, the poetry of living. He had had a glimpse into the Valley of the Many-Colored Grass. The next morning found Mr. Graham still under the spell of the evening with the Poes.
"Olive told me to tell you she hoped you will stay to dinner. And if she said it, she does really hope it. She is willing to risk that." "Just as I am?" the visitor inquired, presenting himself with rather a work-a-day aspect. Mrs. Luna glanced at him from head to foot, and gave a little smiling sigh, as if he had been a long sum in addition.
She thought of that little place with a vague wonder. It was the stepping-stone between the life she now knew and that new unknown life that awaited her. She would go there just Dinah work-a-day Dinah her own ordinary self.
He left Willoughby next day, and few of the boys knew what they had lost till he had gone. How he was missed, and how these parting words of his came often to ring in the ears of the old school during the months that were to follow, this story will show. Willoughby wore its ordinary work-a-day look on the morning following the eventful May races.
Men are such fools that they have but one name for a thousand meanings, and beggar the poor love-word to base kitchen usages and work-a-day desires. But I would keep it holy for the flame which it sometimes pleases heaven to light in one heart for the worship of another. I never knew what love was till I saw a girl's face on a May morning and wisdom stripped the rind from my naked heart.
He had the world to himself; a world of cool, sweet scents, pure light and Sabbath quiet that wonderful quiet which seems a living thing with a personality of its own, so different is it from the ordinary quiet of work-a-day mornings. The primrose sky gave promise of a beautiful day.
In a short time the moon rose over the crest of the range, shining with a pure brilliance that the work-a-day sun can only dream of. After several hours of uneventful progress the train ran into a long siding and came to a gentle stop.
It was a pretentious apartment house, set up on the corner commanding a view of the campus and the park. Just far enough removed from the boarding-house region was Crescent Court to be quite beyond the noise of the street-cars and the shoppers, and consequently its inmates felt themselves far removed from the work-a-day world.
Strange, is it not, that nature should make a duplicate of her greatest earthly chef d'oeuvre?" "You conceited young jackanapes!" growled Sir Norman, in deep displeasure. "It is far stranger how such a bundle of vanity can contrive to live in this work-a-day world. You are a foreigner, I perceive?" "Yes, Sir Norman, I am happy to say I am." "You don't like England, then?"
At any rate, she reminds me of your mother." He broke off, and looked at Cornish with his slow and rather ponderous smile. His attitude towards the world was indeed one of conscious ponderosity. He did not attempt to understand the lighter side of life, but took it seriously as a work-a-day matter. "I was once in love with your mother," he stated squarely. "But circumstances were against us.
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