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But not for their average men: they will simply be like obstinate housekeepers who clog up their homes, preserving odd boxes and wrappings, and stray lengths of string, to exult if but one is of some trifling use ere they die.
As for the Hydropathist, the Genius of the Bath, whose dwelling is in Damascus, would be convulsed with scornful laughter, could he behold that aqueous Diogenes sitting in his tub, or stretched out in his wet wrappings, like a sodden mummy, in a catacomb of blankets and feather beds.
It was the very mystery of Life which lay beneath the picturesque wrappings; small wonder that the Quest of the Grail became the synonym for the highest achievement that could be set before men, and that when the romantic evolution of the Arthurian tradition reached its term, this supreme adventure was swept within the magic circle.
"To find a burnt-offering for your shrine," said the Boy; and tearing off the white wrappings, he gave her the silver chamois. The Little Rift within the Lute "There comes a mist, and a weeping rain, And nothing is ever the same again; Alas!"
He began indifferently to tear open the wrappings, and glanced hastily over the columns of the newspapers in which, however, there was nothing new. He was just about to throw them down and all at once he leaped out of bed as if he had been stung.
It was not a metal foot but in reality a foot of flesh, an embalmed foot, a mummy's foot; on examining it more closely, one could distinguish the grain of the skin, and the almost imperceptible imprint of the weave of the wrappings.
Its deck was filled with children muffled up to their chins. Looking at them from the ice you could see only smiling little faces imbedded in bright-colored woolen wrappings. They were singing a chorus in honor of Saint Nicholas. The music, starting in the discord of a hundred childish voices, floated, as it rose, into exquisite harmony: "Friend of sailors and of children!
She folded the rain-coat, and placed it smoothly in the suit-case, then with dismay remembered that she had nothing in which to put her own cloth dress, save the few inadequate paper wrappings that had come about her simple purchases. Vainly she tried to reduce the dress to a bundle that would be covered by the papers. It was of no use. She looked down at the suit-case.
That is roughly what I had in mind, except when we get out of here we are going in the other direction, as far away from your krenoj crowd as I can get." Ijale listened attentively, stirring the soup with one hand and scratching inside her leather wrappings with the other.
A woman whom she did not know clumsily took her wrappings from her, and then led her into a room where Seaforth drew a chair up to a table beside the stove. Alice Deringham's head was throbbing, but she could see that he was white and haggard. "How is he?" she said, and the tingling pain grew more pronounced as she waited the answer. Seaforth's face was very grave.
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