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So beginning, I wrought out the bedstead, and finished it utterly, and with gold enwrought it about, and with silver and ivory, and stretched on it a thong of oxhide, with the purple made bright. Thus then the sign I have shown thee; nor, woman, know I aright If my bed yet bideth steadfast, or if to another place Some man hath moved it, and smitten the olive-bole from its base.»
With a telescope he watched the garden and the glass-covered drying-room where van Baerle kept his bulbs and records. Van Baerle, absorbed in his work, was utterly ignorant of the hatred of his envious neighbor.
In "Numa Roumestan" the satire is still less sympathetic and less good-natured. Numa is utterly detestable. He is a visionary; we readily forgive such a weakness, and we are amused by this characteristic trait of the south in Bompard and Tartarin. These two are visionaries and liars; they are cowards too, boastful and conceited. But they have never had the happiness of others in their hands.
Certes, sir Edwin Arnold pâtit de la comparaison inévitable qu'on ne peut s'empêcher de faire entre son œuvre et l'œuvre d'Edward Fitzgerald, et certainement Fitzgerald n'eut jamais écrit un vers comme celui-ci: «utterly wotting all their innermosts;» (il connaît
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