Zell

“ Our hostess was not long in preparing supper, and as it was extremely frugal, she produced for us a bottle of Neufchâtel wine, of much better quality than one could have expected to meet with in so retired a situation. We set out at an early hour next morning, and, after passing through a vast forest of fir, arrived to breakfast at Zell, in the canton of Lucerne, where the number of chapels by the road-side announced that the Roman Catholic was the established religion. The valley beyond Zell is extensive and well watered. The peasants display much ingenuity in irrigating their meadows. ”

“ I beg of you to assure the Duke of Zell and the Elector that I shall continue all my lifetime in the same sentiments of respect and attachment for their family. I am too old to change, and too deeply impressed with the sentiments of the late King, my master, ever to deviate from them. Besides, I love my religion and hate slavery. I hope my son, who is on his return from Italy, will have the honour of making his court at Hanover, and of being received as the son of a faithful servant to the family. ”

“ MRS. ZELL had begun to cry too, she was so upset. “You mustn't cry, 'Thea,” she said. “You know how it ruins the eyes. Jane didn't mean—”
“She did!” 'Thea was stormy. She choked and sobbed and stamped her foot, and her soft voice was getting wet-sounding and hoarse. “She meant it! She knew we were acting the story of the Sleeping Beauty, didn't she? It isn't for myself I care anything about it, Mamma; it's because she spoiled the story. I was supposed to be the Beauty, wasn't I? ”

“ It is to be feared that the pay of a fifteenth-century “corrector,” when he was paid at all, was far from princely. It is pleasant, therefore, to find that at least one printer, the veteran Ulrich Zell, was so genuinely grateful to a friendly priest who had helped him in seeing Harderwyck’s “Commentaries on Logic” through the press as to make most handsome acknowledgment in his colophon and in verses added to it. ”

“ Zell was the greatest organizer of charity entertainments we ever had; and the poor certainly should have blessed her. There wasn't a month in the year, it seemed, when 'Thea didn't appear as the star of some sort of kermess or pageant or bazaar-show. ”

“ Just by chance, apparently, a human being without any flaw, from the crown of her little gold head to the soles of her pretty little feet, had been born into a world made up of people pretty generally rather homely; and this perfect-looking person happened to be 'Thea Zell of our town. Milton Zell was what people used to call “a mighty fine-looking man,” and 'Thea's mother had been pretty, people who knew her said; yet neither of them showed anything to account for their having a daughter like 'Thea. But then, 'Thea would have been a miracle anywhere, no matter who her parents were. ”

“ Cyril and Zella parted; a thousand fears, a thousand hours of misery rose between the pair, late sharers in perfect happiness. The boisterous sea and distant lands were the smallest of the obstacles that divided them; they would not fear the worst; yet hope, a sickly plant, faded in their hearts as they tore themselves asunder after a last embrace.
Zella returned from the fertile district of Corinth to her barren native rocks. She felt all joy expire as she viewed from the rugged shore the lessening sails of the sacovela. ”

“ IN those days I never knew 'Thea to be in any danger of getting lines on her forehead except once; and that was on the night when she had her greatest triumph. She was seventeen then, and Mrs. Zell was busier than ever organizing charity shows for 'Thea and the worthy poor. This time it was “The Sleeping Beauty,” to buy Thanksgiving dinners for the unemployed ”

“ This participation of the laity made the towns the bulwark of the German Reformed faith, and the value of their co-operation was theologically expressed by the enunciation of the doctrine of the universal priesthood of man against the exclusive claims of the Church. Indeed not only were all men priests, but women as well-so declared Matthew Zell, in grateful recognition of the effective aid which women occasionally rendered to the cause of Reform. ”

“ Her attendant had, in despair of ever seeing her sleep again, drugged with opium the few cakes she persuaded her to eat, but the poor woman did not calculate on the power of mind over body, of love over every enemy, physical or moral, arrayed against it. Zella lay on her couch, her spirit somewhat subdued, but her heart alive, her eyes unclosed. In the night, led by some unexplained impulse, she crawled to her lattice, and saw a little sacovela enter the bay; it ran in swiftly, under favour of the wind, and was lost to her sight under a jutting crag. ”

“ Thus, one fine afternoon, they invited Sub-Prefect Châtelard, Mayor Gourier, Judge Gaume, and Abbé Marle to take tea with them in their flowery garden, where they had spent so many idle days, stretched face to face in large rocking chairs, and gazing at their roses, without even tiring themselves by talking.
'You see,' said Mazelle to his wife, 'we will do what those gentlemen advise. They know more about such matters than we do, and nobody will be able to blame us for following their counsel. ”

“ Upon her feet were the pretty red shoes her father had brought her from Regos. Thus prepared, she kissed her parents good-bye and started out with a light heart, carrying the pails of honey in either hand.
It was necessary for Zella to cross the path that led from the mines to the city, but once on the other side she was not likely to meet with anyone, for she had resolved to cut through the forest and so reach the bridge of boats without entering the City of Regos, where she might be interrupted. ”

“ Zella was unwilling to quit her home, even for a short interval; but she suffered herself to be persuaded, and they proceeded altogether for several miles towards the capital of the Morea. At noontide they made a repast under the shadow of a grove of oaks, and then separated. Returning homeward, the wedded pair congratulated themselves on their tranquil life and peaceful happiness, contrasted with the wanderer’s lonely and homeless pleasures. These feelings increased in intensity as they drew nearer their dwelling, and anticipated the lisped welcome of their idolized child. ”

“ Where the Doctrinale was used we may be sure that the Donatus would be used also, and in greater numbers, so that this mention of a “mould-casted” Doctrinale as purchased as early as 1446 is a real confirmation of Zell’s assertion. We have no sufficient ground for believing that any of the fragments, either of the one book or the other, now in existence were produced as early as this. It is of the nature of school-books to be destroyed, and every improvement in the process of production would help to drive the earlier experiments out of existence. ”

“ It comes, bringing with it that almost intolerable tragedy of the soul, the black loneliness that waits upon insincerity. Then poor deluded Zella, seeing herself, sees also the fate that eventually befalls those who have deliberately falsified the signals by which alone one human heart can speak to and assist another. ”

“ I suppose there are “artistic” people and “modern” people who would only have thought it was beautiful, and that 'Thea's splendid loveliness had some Grecian sort of right to be disclosed so generally. In a professional ballet of the “modern” type, I doubt if I'd have thought it immoral or improper, myself—probably I shouldn't have thought anything about it at all. But to see the woman who'd been little 'Thea Zell that we all knew, Fred Cooper's wife—and everybody knew Fred, too—to see her so revealed in public, step by step, so to speak, was more than startling. ”

“ Zell who put Fred into the Prince's part; and the Courtiers were all certain she did it because his father owned the Car Wheel Works and not because he was any handsomer than the general run of Courtiers and other people.
The scene after the one showing Fred poking around among the cobwebs and thorns outside, was inside the Castle again; and there was lots of applause for 'Thea when she was discovered asleep on a silver sofa, with the King and Queen and Courtiers draped over chairs and tables and lying around on the floor. The lights were all focused upon her, and she was a glorious sight ”

“ The king’s health is (God be thanked) every day better. The swelling of his legs is almost entirely gone off by rubbing and fomentations from without; to which they have added some very innocent remedies, which make him void water plentifully. His majesty sleeps, eats, and hunts as well as ever he did. The common opinion is that he will go over to England in six weeks. I hope that affairs will be put then upon a good footing. The Duke of Zell is expected here to-morrow week, with the Elector of Hanover, who will not go for England till some months after the king. ”

“ And with that she raised her melancholy eyes and scanned the walls from floor to ceiling. Her daughter Estelle, a slight, insignificant-looking girl of sixteen, the thankless period of life, quitted the large footstool on which she was sitting and silently came and propped up one of the logs which had rolled from its place. But Mme de Chezelles, a convent friend of Sabine’s and her junior by five years, exclaimed:
“Dear me, I would gladly be possessed of a drawing room such as yours! At any rate, you are able to receive visitors. They only build boxes nowadays. ”

“ So when Zella set out on her journey to Queen Cor, with the two pails of honey in her hands, she was undertaking a dangerous adventure and there was no certainty that she would return safely to her loving parents. But they were poor, and Queen Cor's money, which they expected to receive for the honey, would enable them to purchase many things that were needed; so it was deemed best that Zella should go. She was a brave little girl and poor people are often obliged to take chances that rich ones are spared. ”

“ To himself it was given to see the future in its action; and it passed before him so distinct and bright, that Zella, sitting at his side, oft turned away with fear, as his tongue grew eloquent over a tale of greatness and of sorrow still hidden within the womb of time. Thrice blessed is he who knows his work and does it; who learns in early youth that the practical is the only good, nor chases phantoms, till, the harvest past, he turns a poor gleaner upon another’s steps, and begs from bounty what should be his of right. ”

“ It seems just to happen that perhaps for a month or a year, or even longer, a girl appears to a young man to be the whole glory of life concentrated into one person; and then, all of a sudden, within half an hour, or even as short a time as five minutes, everything alters, and he doesn't see any glory about her at all. She's just the same, then, as any other girl, except that she's painful to him and other girls aren't.
I'm not speaking of mere sailorlike fickleness, but of the kind of change that came over me when I listened to 'Thea Zell carrying on the way she did with her sister. ”

“ People often speak of a girl's having “golden hair” when they really mean blonde hair or fair hair; and it's only a few times in your life when you see a head of hair that actually might have been made of gold turned into hair. That was the kind 'Thea had; it looked as if somebody had taken a pretty large fortune in gold—not new gold, but gold that's been used a little and gets a tint in it almost greenish—and had made it into the finest kind of hair for 'Thea Zell. ”

“ They were more anxious over the report that the warriors had become more reckless than ever before, and delighted in annoying all the common people; so Zella was told to keep away from the beaten path as much as possible, that she might not encounter any of the King's soldiers.
"When it is necessary to choose between the warriors and the wild beasts," said Nikobob, "the beasts will be found the more merciful." ”

“ Zeitun (20) , a town in the province of Aleppo, with iron mines, inhabited chiefly by Armenian Christians; distinguished as having for centuries maintained their independence under Turkish oppression.
Zeller, Eduard, German professor of Philosophy, born in Würtemberg; studied at Tübingen; was first a disciple of Baur, and then of Hegel; became professor at Berlin, and devoted himself chiefly to the history of Greek philosophy, and distinguished himself most in that regard; b. ”

“ Zillah trembled. This sudden transformation--this complete change from warm affection to icy coldness--from devoted love to iron sternness--was something which she did not anticipate. Being thus taken unawares, she was all unnerved and overcome. She could no longer restrain herself.
"Oh, father!" she cried, bursting into tears, and flinging herself at his feet in uncontrollable emotion. "Oh, father! Do not look at me so--do not speak so to your poor Zillah. Have I any friend on earth but you?" ”

“ Fred Cooper, her mother saw everything she'd lived for thrown away. “'Thea's ruined herself for the sake of a mere little infatuation—the kind that comes to any ordinary girl. She could have had anything in the world; but because she got excited about a good-looking nobody, she's ruined herself! What's the use of having spent your life working like a drudge when you see all you've built up thrown out in the ash-barrel?” ”