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“ The sense of companionship, which I had lost inside the house, had now returned. She and I had occupied the place during one summer only, and much of our time had been spent in this verdurous and flowery enclosure. She dressed in white frocks: the sun sparkled on her hair. We had plucked flowers of antique fashion in the garden adjoining; that faithful, dark-haired waiting-woman of hers had spread out rugs to protect us from the damp, and here had we lain, luxurious, when the dial marked noon, and the blue shadow of the great lime-tree had crept silently toward us over the fairy grass-blades. ”

“ Pompom snarling and prancing and snapping around the two men, like a bloodthirsty microbe; and the grinning man's arm coming up with the knife—and the other man's strength going!
“Stop! Stop!” she was screaming. “Or I'll kill you!”
She thought he might stop, with that pistol-muzzle at the back of his head, and she wouldn't have to shoot; but he didn't. He was too excited, perhaps, or triumphant, seeing the other man was practically through. He just kind of rolled his head to avoid her and drew his hand way back with the knife. ”

“ Blows upward from the south, and wooes us sweet,
And since spring is abroad, come, let us greet
The beauty of her presence everywhere.
Come to the forest, where the oak-trees stand
Like giant patriarchs through the changing year,
The autumn leaves are rustling pale and sere
Among their branches, — yet a flowery hand
I see beneath them; ah! what secrets sweet,
And little tenderest blossoms do unfold
Here in this spot beside the oak-trees old,
Like fair young children, tired from their play,
Who seek for shelter, I behold to-day
A vision of wind-flowers blowing at their feet! ”

“ There is not much difference in men asleep—or dead. Ann saw only the weary youth, and nothing of the hellish spirit that animated him waking. An intolerable longing made her breast tight. If she could but have him so!
She turned back to her own bed, prepared to sleep now; but she was arrested by the picture framed in the opening of the trees. With the moon in her eyes, the lake no longer appeared steely and glimmering, but had become gray and vague. There were shadowy lines across it, which denoted the gradually quickening current. ”

“ A slight, muscular figure flung itself forward like a diver taking the surf, and Darrell felt two arms gripping his right leg tenaciously, while eager hands clutched him on every side. A fierce kick ended in the crunch of leather against flesh. There was a gasping grunt, and the clinging hold relaxed. The secret-service agent grasped a wrist, and, with a practiced twist, a heave of his splendid shoulder muscles and taut biceps, he sent another little man spinning through the air to land a dozen feet away with a dull, bone-cracking thud. ”

“ The voice of youth, innocent, sensuous, and musical, echoes about it; soul and flesh are interwoven in its mesh, each glorifying the other. A book, indeed, fit for the reading of the lover and his beloved, sitting cheek to cheek, breathing its aroma, tasting its sweetness, even as Paolo and Francesca in the dim Florentine chamber! Lifting their eyes intermittently from the page to one another, they know how true it is that a thing of beauty is a joy forever—a truth hidden from others revealed to them! ”

“ Our mortal utterance in a thing of space and time, one word painfully succeeding another, and step by step, like the building of a pyramid, constructing the thought or vision we would impart. But the speech of spirits is immediate revelation, as when, if a curtain be lifted, the whole breadth and depth of the landscape is revealed. The ear, in such interchanges, acquires the sovereign gift of the eye, and mind keeps pace with mind.
Thus Aline and I, in our dear, long-delayed embrace, lived again together scenes and thoughts and emotions of the past. ”

“ Dearest, let me sing my songs for a time; they protect that of me which even you could not protect; and when I see my audience listen, breathless, I feel a better right to be yours than if that power were lost to me. My only pleasure in honor is to honor you; if we became outcasts, only my naked self would be left for your compensation. My art is my shield and my crown; what answer could I make to God, if I abandoned it? All the more do I need it, since your love has made me sacred in my own eyes. At best, peril waits on all who take the law into their own hands ”

“ Now I plunge, rejoicing, into the splendid tide of London society, its dinners, its balls, its receptions, its great ladies and famous beauties. And all the while I am sitting motionless and mute at my desk, a hermit, a dim-eyed student, an old bachelor!
No doubt heredity is a truth, and personal traits skip a generation or two and crop out afresh, to be repressed or stimulated by conditions, education, customs, accidents. In some remote and double-locked chamber of my subconscious being may abide the germ of qualities that flamed into splendid results in Captain Heathcote. ”

“ Dark, swarthy little men, they were—with brown, leathery faces and glittering eyes, and red neckties or scarves, and some of them with little earrings, like the old-time brigands must have worn. And all of them had rough, coarse clothes, except one, who was dressed, she thought, almost like an American. And they all sat perfectly still and watched her, in a kind of sinister silence, while she went in, looking as dignified as she could, with Pompom under one arm and Saladin in his cage under the other—and the driver coming after her with her hand-baggage. ”

“ The watery highways give a silence to the traffic, broken by a few carts, wagons, or carriages alongside, jolting on the rough pavement, and by the shrill voice of the people. There is a great absence of bustle, a deliberation in their movements, a well-to-do air which is essentially characteristic of the Dutch.
There is a great fascination in the way in which the ships and barges glide up close to the windows sometimes. Looking down the canals, there is an ever-changing, ever moving kaleidoscope of color, which is a perpetual delight. ”

“ Did they imagine that, at this day, a war with Great Britain would be such a contest as our last struggle with her, when our lands were without roads, and without fortifications, and without munitions, and without all we should have had, save the native bravery of our people, when Great Britain could pour in her regiments on our defenceless frontiers? Far, far different would a war be now. ”

“ And first she appeared before Ai-Leen in the guise of an humble emissary of the people, and told her that all danger was passed, because the Pharaoh had forgotten his passion, and had altogether ceased from anger toward her. "Fear not, therefore, O highly gifted one," she said, "to cast aside thy disguise and go forth, and behold! the people await thy coming in the great temple that is built upon the street of the high priest, even Dru-Ri, there to acclaim thee and do thee honor!" So spake Isis; and the Princess Ai-Leen gave ear to her words. ”

“ A thing of beauty is a joy forever!
There stood the deathless line in old-fashioned, unpretentious type, making its virgin appearance in the world, innocent of fame, ready to go forth on its mission of delight to all lovers of beauty! Few eyes had seen it then, which now is known to myriads: the poem of love and of lovers, thought I to myself, vague, wayward, faulty, exquisite, strange, a mirror wherein the enamored may behold their ideal rather than its reality, or if the reality, then as haloed and softened by the ideal. Beauty dawns through it like summer moonbeams through pearly mists ”

“ Nothing could have been neater, quicker, more complete. There was a graceful, rapid movement, a stern, decided "Stand aside, sir!" a gentle, caressing "Allow me, Miss Swansdown!"—and there stood Sam, alone, his face contorted with fury, mortification, conscious defeat; and moving away, arm-in-arm, a perfect picture of confiding affection on one side and loving protection on the other, the well-matched figures of Ned Holland and Nellie Swansdown. ”

“ I am afraid, afraid of the world." Mother Elizabeth laid her hand upon the young head bowed upon her knee.
"My child, why do you fear?" she asked.
"I do not know," murmured Virgina. "Only I am terrified. When I think of what may come I feel so alone."
"You have your sister. She has courage enough for two."
Virginia smiled through her tears. "Harriet is afraid of nothing," she said. "She is eager to see the world; but I do not care for this journey across the seas. If it were not for Harriet I should give it up even now." ”

“ Hurry up! Hurry up! on my new machine:
Man, you're slow, boss is losing money:
It displaces seventy men. If you cannot speed up you're fired then.
Go and look, go and look for another master,
Good or bad, you sure will make him wealthy,
It's God darn hard to wake you up.
YOU'RE A BONEHEAD WORKING MAN.
Mr. Slave, Mr. Slave, hear the union grand,
It's a wave, it's a wave rolling through the land,
This the masters fear we are here to free our class from
slavery. ”

“ The first pale streaks of dawn, sifting into the tent, fell upon a face in which the lines of mental and physical pain had been replaced by dogged inflexibility of purpose. Darrell had determined that his captors should have no satisfaction from him. He would play the game to the bitter end; striving to implant in the mind of their leader a carking, nagging doubt as to whether, after all, there might not be some truth in his story. ”

“ Ann stopped and stared sightlessly in a store window. The crafty, instinctive part of us is always on the watch to take an unfair advantage. The instinctive part of Ann used poor Bower's going as an excuse to start a new fight, dead beat as she was from fighting all night.
Because she didn't want to go, the fact that Bower was going rendered the trip well-nigh insupportable to her. How could she endure it, she asked herself, when Bower was so gentle, so chivalrous, glowing with such a deep and repressed passion— in a word, all that she longed for in another man? ”

“ Later, Lois came on and joined me. Fortune has been kind. I have prospered in business and been honored politically, and the name of Arlo McKenzie is one with integrity and honor. But after this evening I shall be branded as an ex-convict, and black disgrace will cover me and mine."
His strong hands clenched spasmodically on the chair arm, although a fire of defiance burned in his eyes.
"This will not be!" breathed Lois quiveringly. "You will not be made to suffer for a wrong you never committed! Father, you have borne enough—you will not be asked to bear more!" ”

“ THE VEIL GROWS THIN. SINCE our parting I have lived in a place midway between an abyss and a mountain, where the sick and wounded of earth go to be healed, if seeds of health be in them, or if not, to perish. The dead go down into the abyss; those freed from death ascend to their felicity. But for our love, O heart of my soul, I should have chosen death; but because our love could not die I live, and our reunion is near! ”

“ The whole sky was in vivid flame-color, tinging the wide mass of water, flecked here and there with ever-varying tints of pearly grey. The strong glare of light touched the gold and silver head-dresses of the people, and gave the crowd a most brilliant aspect. Nothing can surely equal the prettiness of their quaint Dutch holiday dress, with the spotless white aprons, sometimes a kerchief, the curious fulness of the petticoats, and the fair and pretty faces set off by the close, rich head-dress. The weights these women carry are something beyond belief. ”

“ Breaks over steaming streams and silent fields,
With dim, far voices of the early dawn.
God and his world are now at peace; this calm,
Even now, might deepen to eternity.
Oh, break it not! oh, stain it not! O God,
Stay thou that rising sun, nor let him rise
Once more upon the weary sin and strife,
And cries that curse him thro' the burning blue! ”

“ It is a most unfortunate thing for a country not ready to declare itself a republic that its dynasty should come to an end; more unfortunate still when that dynasty reigns not by prescription, but in virtue of treaties not a century old; most unfortunate of all when the country is too weak to be independent of foreign influence. If the princess Victoria had died, and Germany had been able to declare for the Duke of Cumberland, and France had supported the Duke of Cambridge, we should have had trouble here; and the position of Holland might conceivably be far worse than that. ”

“ While the patriot and the American who looks forward to the time when our great confederacy shall stretch over the Mississippi and Oregon territories, embracing perhaps sixty states, some of which are separated thousands of miles, will regard this new and mighty agency in interchanging thoughts, sentiments and feelings, as one of the indissoluble links of firm and enduring union, and of making us all feel that we are still one nation—with one language—one capitol —and more than all, with one heart.—Albany Argus. ”

“ Through the gathering mists they saw the Golden Horn, headed again for the open sea, and trailing a black smudge against the heavens. The sight engulfed them both with a sudden sense of loneliness that was almost sickening; a feeling of being deserted at the desolate ends of the earth ”

“ Scattered about on this beach were a dozen or fifteen little brown men engaged in spreading fish nets on the sand to dry. Bare of leg and back, they chattered and laughed as they went about their work without the slightest effort at secrecy or concealment. A little way up from the beach stood three or four rough huts. A fisherman's boat was drawn up on the sand, and, last of all, as the sun began to suck up the mist with increasing rapidity, the secret-service agent beheld the vague outlines of a small steamer such as the Japanese commonly use for deep-sea fishing. ”

“ Is it lack of love that keeps us from heaven? But one mystery succeeds another, and the final gate is never passed. What is love? All my awakening understanding tells me it is life. But if I ask what life is, I am dazzled by rays proceeding from the source of the Infinite! ”

“ So the two wrestled together, with Ai-Leen between them. But Sir Lionel's strength was great, and he began to prevail over the magician.
But when the magician saw that he was overpowered he took from his girdle a dagger, and smote Ai-Leen through the heart, and her spirit left her body, and she died. Then Sir Lionel, in his mighty rage and anguish, grasped the magician in his arms and hurled him through the window of the high tower, and he fell to the stones of the pavement and was dashed to pieces. And Sir Lionel cast himself down beside the body of his beloved and wept in his agony. ”

“ Suddenly a distant shout clashed upon Darrell's senses, like a crashing peal of thunder, followed swiftly by another. There was the sound of stones rattling down a slope. Some one snapped out a sharp order, and the crawling motion of the cord ceased, leaving Darrell dazed and wondering.
An instant later, he was conscious of a vague, uneasy movement in the circle of waiting men. Presently he heard the padding of feet; swift, staccato sentences jerked out in a breathless voice; then a sudden uproar all around him. ”

“ The future may be wrong or right, —
The present is distinctly wrong;
For life and love have lost delight,
And bitter even is our song.
And year by year, grey doubt grows strong,
And Death is all that seems to dree ”

“ For her influence—the perception that it aroused in me—had always been that of a young woman in the bloom of her career—such a woman, with bright auburn hair and sparkling dark eyes, as my fancy had conjured up standing in the presence of royalty. The century that intervened, while denying all hope of confirming this vision in the flesh, yet assured me that her freshness and beauty were beyond the reach of time; that she was an immortal reality, secure and unchangeable. ”

“ And so she came into that heavenly soft bright place with the queer shops, and the weird old-fashioned carriages, and the horses with bells and scarlet on their harnesses; and they clattered on up to the hotel—Spinks Beaufort turning her head here and there, almost twisting it off, watching the bright skirts and scarves and shawls on the women, and the brigands of men in the door ways, and the wonderful colored things for sale—cloths and flowers and fruit and copper kettles, and even bright birds in cages. ”

“ A sudden stillness and awe came over the audience, now that their crazy excitement was past. Silently they left their seats and hurried to get out of the hall before the gas should be turned off. The multitude outside, who had crowded to the entrance, curious to see the faces of those who had seen the Automaton, shrank back alarmed at their ghastly appearance. Every one hastened homeward as fast as his legs would take him, and in an incredibly short space of time there was not a soul left in the streets.
Among the last to leave the hall were Sam Gumple and Nellie Swansdown. ”

“ It cannot be all imagination that something in the place fills one with contentment and good humor. Every one seems to be prepared to enjoy and not to cavil; faces have smiles and a pleasant expression, and we sit on the beach and make friends, especially with the Dutch babies and delightful Dutch children, who are confiding and not shy — frank, fair, and round-limbed — and who are invariably so gently and wisely managed, that they are obedient and docile, and, even at that early age, have the look of repose and quiet happiness which strikes one in their elders.
Holland is not cheap ”

“ Surely God has made us for each other, and if, in the years while we were blindly seeking each other, we had turned aside from the true path, it was but that the union to come might be more perfect!
In the summer days now past, while under the magic of love you had muted your nightingale notes from the ear of the world, and made yourself invisible in our nest under the lime trees, foregoing fame and applause for love's sake—we had dwelt together in a fairy-land enchantment that seemed to remove us forever from memory or desire of outer things. ”

“ Cranmer had not learned the one thing that concerned her. All that Ann cared to know was the true state of Chako's mind that day.
All day the girl was pursued by the devils of restlessness. She could neither sit still nor put her hand to any work. In and out of the house she went, to and from the edge of the bank, up and down the trail. It was only the baby that kept her from flying off the handle altogether. To hold the baby in her arms gave her strength and sanity.
When night came, and they all went to bed, it was worse. Ann, in her loft, felt as if the low roof was suffocating her. ”

“ It is not necessary to go back and give a reason for all this; it is easy enough to imagine how, during the month of Ned Holland's presence in Mullenville, beauty and valor and prettiness and sweetness had mutually and irresistibly attracted each other, to the abandonment and oblivion of all beside; how, the day before the incident we have witnessed, the loving explanation had taken place, and Sam Gumple's final overthrow been agreed upon. No use going into the particulars of all that; what is to come is matter of even greater moment. ”

“ All looks so fair and calm; flowers bloom as they should do at Haarlem. The quiet waters flow on, all is bright and peaceful, but we think that the past struggle has left its impress on the faces of the inhabitants as on their bearing and character. They have more the reflective expression of a people with a past history to be proud of, than the eager and expectant look of a new people with a future and no past. Every visit to Haarlem increased our admiration for it. ”

“ On a spring day, with some chance companion, I sat me down among a multitude in a hall of audience where musicians fiddled and blew: a careless soldier, indifferent to beauty, unconscious as yet of his own soul. But as I sat there immersed in my vain musings, the instruments were hushed and a voice, clear, pure and ravishing, ascended and soared out of the stillness, gathered power magically, shivered deliciously in my heart, rose again to slenderest pinnacles of ecstasy, and tinted the air with tremulous rainbows. ”