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But it was not to be; this tragedian of the fifth act had now another part to play; and the time had come when others were to gird and carry him. I would fain strike a note that should be more heroical; but the ground of all youth's suffering, solitude, hysteria, and haunting of the grave, is nothing else than naked, ignorant selfishness.
You can read easily a page of an ordinary youth's paper in twenty minutes, and at that rate could get through, in three hundred and sixty-five hours, no fewer than one thousand and ninety-five pages. And suppose the matter were printed in small pages, of, say, three hundred words apiece, your daily reading for one hour would in a year cover something like twelve thousand pages.
Hence she obtained her crest, which is popularly said to be her father's grave-hillock. Youth's first duty is reverence to parents. The Gnat and the Bull A GNAT settled on the horn of a Bull, and sat there a long time. Just as he was about to fly off, he made a buzzing noise, and inquired of the Bull if he would like him to go.
Gíw replied, that he could not part with his favorite horse; and they rejoined, "Then give us the damsel who accompanies you." Gíw answered, and said, "This is not a damsel, but the mother of that youth!" "Then," observed they, "give us the youth's crown." But Gíw told them that he could not comply with their demand; yet he was ready to reward them with money to any extent.
Only vacuous, self-centered thoughts which were flowing idly through the youth's mind were available to him. He wondered if he could influence the other to do something. If he could control another's mind even just a little it would really help in his work. So he now tried every method his agile mind could imagine, to make the fellow pick up the book that lay beside his chair.
A strange smile flitted across the youth's face as he replied "What I brought home with me won't benefit them much, for it lies with the wreck of the Rainbow at the bottom of the sea." This was indeed a surprise to the old couple, who now learned, for the first time, that the wrecked ship, about which a rumour had just reached them, was that in which their son had come home.
The youth's father says: "Let the lad go forth" and God is a Father, though He takes counsel of a mother-heart. All this reflective vein flows from this poor heart of mine, the truth whereof that heart hath sorrowfully proved. For my daughter Margaret holds within it a place of solitary tenderness, more exclusively her own as the years go by.
Then, removing from her girdle a pair of spectacles, she placed them in the youth's hand. He drew back in surprise. "Does she take me for an old man?" thought he. He had expected a casket of gems at least; perhaps a crown. "Wait," said Fontana: "they are the eyes of Wisdom. When you have learned their use, you will not despise my gift. Keep a pure heart, and always remember Blanche.
'Thou didst thy duty like a brave knight and true, I doubt not, said the king, kindly wishful to comfort him; 'and that my word may be a true one, he added, drawing his sword and laying it across the youth's chest, 'although I cannot tell thee to rise and walk, I tell thee, when thou dost arise, to rise up sir Rowland Scudamore. The blood rushed to sir Rowland's face, but fled again as fast.
"A right Jack-o'-Lantern, as everybody knaws," suggested Mr. Blee. "Ess fay, 'tis truth. Shifting and oncertain as the marsh gallopers on the moor bogs of a summer night. Awnly a youth's faults, you mind; but still faults.
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