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These moods come upon us so like memories! But you, graybeard travellers in the Desert of Life, you are not to be deceived by the trickery of the elements; you know the moist mirage; you are not to be beguiled by it from your track; let the unwary dream dreams of bubbling wellsprings and pleasant shade, of palmy oases and tranquil repose; as for you, you must goad your camels and press onward for Jerusalem.
And how did this affect Paulus as he climbed the mountain, lonely and proscribed? A fisherman from the little seaport of Pharan, who met him half-way and exchanged a greeting with him, thought to himself as he looked after him, "The great graybeard looks as happy as if he had found a treasure."
A man of my age to take pleasure in seeing that little head filled with follies and fancies of which I am the object. But can one let one be ever so old always act or think reasonably? You are mad, Marien! A child of fourteen! Bah! they make her out to be fourteen but she is fifteen and was not that the age of Juliet? But, you old graybeard, you are not Romeo! 'Ma foi'! I am in a pretty scrape.
"Ain't it awful?" a graybeard would whisper to a stripling youth. "Ain't it terrible?" would come the reply. "Well, well, well! Old Isom!" That was as far as any of them could go. Then they would walk softly, scarcely breathing, to the window and peep in again. Joe, unhailed and undisturbed, was spinning out his sleep. Mrs.
Forward stepped the Master, with a word to Leclair to follow him but to stand a little in the rear. The old Sheik dismounted; and followed by another graybeard, likewise advanced. When the distance was but about eight feet between them, both halted.
Such an hour, it is destined, shall arrive, after many long and miserable years, when, aware of the beneficence of living for others and in the imagined prospect of leading, guiding, and guarding a free people upon a free land, Faust shall be willing to say to the moment: "Stay, thou art so fair"; and Mephistopheles shall harshly cry out: "The clock stands still"; and the graybeard shall sink in the dust; and the holy angels shall fly away with his soul, leaving the Fiend baffled and morose, to gibe at himself over the failure of all his infernal arts.
And how did this affect Paulus as he climbed the mountain, lonely and proscribed? A fisherman from the little seaport of Pharan, who met him half-way and exchanged a greeting with him, thought to himself as he looked after him, "The great graybeard looks as happy as if he had found a treasure."
They believed in a fair fountain, hard indeed to find, but of such efficacy that the graybeard who dipped in its shining waters stepped forth a youth upon ever-vernal banks. So with these who like an arrow now clave the blue to the point of danger.
"To produce such a graybeard of a book at two and twenty, Mr. Sandys," said Cathro, "is amazing. It partakes, sir, of the nature of the miraculous; it's onchancey, by which we mean a deviation from the normal." And so on. Oddly enough, they also were discussing deviations from the normal.
They rolled in the narrow trail and into the thick verdure beside it. They bit and clawed and scratched and struck, and all the while they kept up the most frightful chorus of growlings and barkings and roarings. In five minutes they were torn and bleeding, and the little graybeard leaped high, shrilling his primitive bravos; but always his attitude was "thumbs down."
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