Poor Corinth! So are gone the days of her true glory--the glory of her usefulness, while the days of her promised honor and power are not yet fulfilled.
And because the town of this story is what it is, there came to dwell in it a Spirit--a strange, mysterious power--playful, vicious, deadly; a Something to be at once feared and courted; to be denied--yet confessed in the denial; a dreaded enemy, a welcome friend, an all-powerful Ally.
But, for Corinth, the humiliation of her material failure is forgotten in her pride of a finer success. The shame of commercial and civic obscurity is lost in the light of national recognition. And that self-respect and pride of place, without which neither man nor town can look the world in the face, is saved to her by the Statesman.
Born in Corinth, a graduate of the old Academy, town clerk, mayor, county clerk, state senator, congressman, his zeal in advocating a much discussed issue of his day, won for him national notice, and for his town everlasting fame.
In this man unusual talents were combined with rare integrity of purpose and purity of life. Politics to him meant a way whereby he might serve his fellows. However much men differed as to the value of the measures for which he fought, no one ever doubted his belief in them or questioned his reasons for fighting. It was not at all strange that such a man should have won the respect and friendship of the truly great. But with all the honors that came to him, the Statesman's heart never turned from the little Ozark town, and it was here among those who knew him best that his influence for good was greatest and that he was most loved and honored. Thus all that the railroad failed to do for Corinth the Statesman did in a larger, finer way.
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2012年3月7日星期三
Only the trees that line the unpaved streets have grown
Thus Corinth took the railroad to her heart, literally. The depot, the yards, the red section-house and the water-tank are all in the very center of the town. Every train while stopping for water (and they all stop) blocks two of the three principal streets. And when, after waiting in the rain or snow until his patience is nearly exhausted, the humble Corinthian goes to the only remaining crossing, he always gets there just in time to meet a long freight backing onto the siding. Nowhere in the whole place can one escape the screaming whistle, clanging bell, and crashing drawbar. Day and night the rumble of the heavy trains jars and disturbs the peacefulness of the little village.
But the railroad did something for Corinth; not too much, but something. It did more for Judge Strong. For a time the town grew rapidly. Fulfillment of the Judge's prophecies seemed immediate and certain. Then, as mysteriously as they had come, the boom days departed. The mills, factories and shops that were going to be, established themselves elsewhere. The sound of the builder's hammer was no longer heard. The Doctor says that Judge Strong had come to believe in his own prediction, or at least, fearing that his prophecy might prove true, refused to part with more land except at prices that would be justified only in a great metropolis.
Neighboring towns that were born when Corinth was middle-aged, flourished and have become cities of importance. The country round about has grown rich and prosperous. Each year more and heavier trains thunder past on their way to and from the great city by the distant river, stopping only to take water. But in this swiftly moving stream of life Corinth is caught in an eddy. Her small world has come to swing in a very small circle--it can scarcely be said to swing at all. The very children stop growing when they become men and women, and are content to dream the dreams their fathers' fathers dreamed, even as they live in the houses the fathers of their fathers built. Only the trees that line the unpaved streets have grown--grown and grown until overhead their great tops touch to shut out the sky with an arch of green, and their mighty trunks crowd contemptuously aside the old sidewalks, with their decayed and broken boards.
Old Town, a mile away, is given over to the negroes. The few buildings that remain are fallen into ruin, save as they are patched up by their dusky tenants. And on the hill, the old Academy with its broken windows, crumbling walls, and fallen chimneys, stands a pitiful witness of an honor and dignity that is gone.
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But the railroad did something for Corinth; not too much, but something. It did more for Judge Strong. For a time the town grew rapidly. Fulfillment of the Judge's prophecies seemed immediate and certain. Then, as mysteriously as they had come, the boom days departed. The mills, factories and shops that were going to be, established themselves elsewhere. The sound of the builder's hammer was no longer heard. The Doctor says that Judge Strong had come to believe in his own prediction, or at least, fearing that his prophecy might prove true, refused to part with more land except at prices that would be justified only in a great metropolis.
Neighboring towns that were born when Corinth was middle-aged, flourished and have become cities of importance. The country round about has grown rich and prosperous. Each year more and heavier trains thunder past on their way to and from the great city by the distant river, stopping only to take water. But in this swiftly moving stream of life Corinth is caught in an eddy. Her small world has come to swing in a very small circle--it can scarcely be said to swing at all. The very children stop growing when they become men and women, and are content to dream the dreams their fathers' fathers dreamed, even as they live in the houses the fathers of their fathers built. Only the trees that line the unpaved streets have grown--grown and grown until overhead their great tops touch to shut out the sky with an arch of green, and their mighty trunks crowd contemptuously aside the old sidewalks, with their decayed and broken boards.
Old Town, a mile away, is given over to the negroes. The few buildings that remain are fallen into ruin, save as they are patched up by their dusky tenants. And on the hill, the old Academy with its broken windows, crumbling walls, and fallen chimneys, stands a pitiful witness of an honor and dignity that is gone.
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They left the beautiful
"And because the town of this story is what it is, there came to dwell in it a Spirit--a strange, mysterious power--playful, vicious, deadly; a Something to be at once feared and courted; to be denied--yet confessed in the denial; a deadly enemy, a welcome friend, an all-powerful Ally."
This story began in the Ozark Mountains. It follows the trail that is nobody knows how old. But mostly this story happened in Corinth, a town of the middle class in a Middle Western state.
There is nothing peculiar about Corinth. The story might have happened just as well in any other place, for the only distinguishing feature about this town is its utter lack of any distinguishing feature whatever. In all the essential elements of its life, so far as this story goes, Corinth is exactly like every other village, town or city in the land. This, indeed, is why the story happened in this particular place.
Years ago, when the railroad first climbed the backbone of the Ozarks, it found Corinth already located on the summit. Even before the war, this county-seat town was a place of no little importance, and many a good tale might be told of those exciting days when the woods were full of guerrillas and bushwhackers, and the village was raided first by one side, then by the other. Many a good tale is told, indeed; for the fathers and mothers of Corinth love to talk of the war times, and to point out in Old Town the bullet-marked buildings and the scenes of many thrilling events.
But the sons and daughters of the passing generation, with their sons and daughters, like better to talk of the great things that are going to be--when the proposed shoe-factory comes, the talked-of mills are established, the dreamed-of electric line is built out from the city, or the Capitalist from Somewhere-else arrives to invest in vacant lots, thereon to build new hotels and business blocks.
The Doctor says that in the whole history of Corinth there are only two events. The first was the coming of the railroad; the second was the death of the Doctor's good friend, the Statesman.
The railroad did not actually enter Corinth. It stopped at the front gate. But with Judge Strong's assistance the fathers and mothers recognized their "golden opportunity" and took the step which the eloquent Judge assured them would result in a "glorious future." They left the beautiful, well-drained site chosen by those who cleared the wilderness, and stretched themselves out along the mud-flat on either side of the sacred right-of-way--that same mud-flat being, incidentally, the property of the patriotic Judge.
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This story began in the Ozark Mountains. It follows the trail that is nobody knows how old. But mostly this story happened in Corinth, a town of the middle class in a Middle Western state.
There is nothing peculiar about Corinth. The story might have happened just as well in any other place, for the only distinguishing feature about this town is its utter lack of any distinguishing feature whatever. In all the essential elements of its life, so far as this story goes, Corinth is exactly like every other village, town or city in the land. This, indeed, is why the story happened in this particular place.
Years ago, when the railroad first climbed the backbone of the Ozarks, it found Corinth already located on the summit. Even before the war, this county-seat town was a place of no little importance, and many a good tale might be told of those exciting days when the woods were full of guerrillas and bushwhackers, and the village was raided first by one side, then by the other. Many a good tale is told, indeed; for the fathers and mothers of Corinth love to talk of the war times, and to point out in Old Town the bullet-marked buildings and the scenes of many thrilling events.
But the sons and daughters of the passing generation, with their sons and daughters, like better to talk of the great things that are going to be--when the proposed shoe-factory comes, the talked-of mills are established, the dreamed-of electric line is built out from the city, or the Capitalist from Somewhere-else arrives to invest in vacant lots, thereon to build new hotels and business blocks.
The Doctor says that in the whole history of Corinth there are only two events. The first was the coming of the railroad; the second was the death of the Doctor's good friend, the Statesman.
The railroad did not actually enter Corinth. It stopped at the front gate. But with Judge Strong's assistance the fathers and mothers recognized their "golden opportunity" and took the step which the eloquent Judge assured them would result in a "glorious future." They left the beautiful, well-drained site chosen by those who cleared the wilderness, and stretched themselves out along the mud-flat on either side of the sacred right-of-way--that same mud-flat being, incidentally, the property of the patriotic Judge.
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The room smelled sweet
A YOUNG MAN in his twenties with spiky blond hair and a black sport coat whistled through his teeth as he left Junie Moon’s front door. Conklin and I watched from our squad car, saw the john lope across Leavenworth, heard the tootle as he disarmed his late model BMW.
As his taillights disappeared around the corner, Conklin and I walked up the path to the front door of what’s called a Painted Lady: a pastel-colored, gingerbread-decorated Victorian house, this one flaking and in need of repair. I pressed the doorbell, waited a minute, pressed it again.
Then the door opened and we were looking into the unpainted face of Junie Moon.
From the first moment, I saw that Junie was no ordinary hooker.
There was a dewy freshness about her that I’d never seen before in a working girl. Her hair was damp from the shower, a cap of blond curls that trailed into a wisp of a braid that had been dyed blue. Her eyes were a deep, smoky gray, and a thin white scar cut through the top lip of her cupid’s-bow mouth.
She was a beauty, but what grabbed me the most was Junie Moon’s disarming, childlike appearance. Junie pulled the sash of her gold silk dressing gown tightly around her narrow waist as my partner showed her his shield, said our names and “Homicide. Mind if we come in?”
“Homicide? You’re here to see me?” she asked. Her voice matched her appearance, not just young, but sweetened with innocence.
“We have some questions about a missing person,” Rich said, launching his amazing, babe-catcher smile.
Junie Moon invited us in.
The room smelled sweet, floral, like lavender and jasmine, and the light was soft, coming from low-watt bulbs under silk-draped lampshades. Conklin and I sat on a velvet upholstered loveseat while Junie took a seat on an ottoman, clasped her hands around her knees. She was barefoot, her nail polish the pale coral color of the inside of seashells.
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As his taillights disappeared around the corner, Conklin and I walked up the path to the front door of what’s called a Painted Lady: a pastel-colored, gingerbread-decorated Victorian house, this one flaking and in need of repair. I pressed the doorbell, waited a minute, pressed it again.
Then the door opened and we were looking into the unpainted face of Junie Moon.
From the first moment, I saw that Junie was no ordinary hooker.
There was a dewy freshness about her that I’d never seen before in a working girl. Her hair was damp from the shower, a cap of blond curls that trailed into a wisp of a braid that had been dyed blue. Her eyes were a deep, smoky gray, and a thin white scar cut through the top lip of her cupid’s-bow mouth.
She was a beauty, but what grabbed me the most was Junie Moon’s disarming, childlike appearance. Junie pulled the sash of her gold silk dressing gown tightly around her narrow waist as my partner showed her his shield, said our names and “Homicide. Mind if we come in?”
“Homicide? You’re here to see me?” she asked. Her voice matched her appearance, not just young, but sweetened with innocence.
“We have some questions about a missing person,” Rich said, launching his amazing, babe-catcher smile.
Junie Moon invited us in.
The room smelled sweet, floral, like lavender and jasmine, and the light was soft, coming from low-watt bulbs under silk-draped lampshades. Conklin and I sat on a velvet upholstered loveseat while Junie took a seat on an ottoman, clasped her hands around her knees. She was barefoot, her nail polish the pale coral color of the inside of seashells.
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The case was still open
The tips had led nowhere, and months later, when there’d been no calls from a kidnapper, and no trace of Michael had surfaced, terror attacks, wildfires, politics, and new violent crimes pushed the Michael Campion story off the front page.
The case was still open, but everyone assumed the worst. That a kidnapping had gone terribly wrong. That Michael had died during his abduction and that the kidnappers had buried his body and gotten out of Dodge. The citizens of San Francisco mourned along with Michael’s famous and beloved family, and while the public would never forget him, they put the book of his life aside.
Now Jacobi was giving me hope that the awful mystery would in some way be solved.
“Michael’s body has been found?” I asked him.
“Naw, but we’ve got a credible lead. Finally.”
I pressed the phone hard against my ear, ghost stories and the first annual getaway of the Women’s Murder Club forgotten.
Jacobi was saying, “If you want in on this, Boxer, meet me at the Hall -”
“I can be there in an hour.”
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The case was still open, but everyone assumed the worst. That a kidnapping had gone terribly wrong. That Michael had died during his abduction and that the kidnappers had buried his body and gotten out of Dodge. The citizens of San Francisco mourned along with Michael’s famous and beloved family, and while the public would never forget him, they put the book of his life aside.
Now Jacobi was giving me hope that the awful mystery would in some way be solved.
“Michael’s body has been found?” I asked him.
“Naw, but we’ve got a credible lead. Finally.”
I pressed the phone hard against my ear, ghost stories and the first annual getaway of the Women’s Murder Club forgotten.
Jacobi was saying, “If you want in on this, Boxer, meet me at the Hall -”
“I can be there in an hour.”
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2012年3月6日星期二
Choose marriage gauze not known secret! Work is the key
Marriage gauze is every woman's dream life, put on beautiful marriage gauze, beginning of happiness. How to select wedding dresses to show the bride of the perfect one side? This is let many the bride was puzzling problem, happens to be in the bride's wedding in most of the attention problems. Choose marriage gauze, everybody often pay attention to color, style, but very few people will pay attention to work in, in fact the so-called work "good" is so of......
Wearing a white dress is different from the fashion and evening dress, is the bride in life, the most important dress, thus in the tens of thousands of in marriage gauze, narrow range, until eventually try on several sets will make the final decision. Today we go with you to talk about not for the attention of everyone choose marriage gauze details! Must make wedding dress every detail, was perfect, become beautiful memories of her lifetime.
herringbone
Not every kind of design all need the fishbone, straight body design will not need. Also not each clothes herringbone added the more the better. Generally speaking four root can, at most 6 root. Of course there are some underwear design practice inside can add to the root. Good fish bone soft and toughness. Not to be hard can tree up is a good bones, flexibility is good is. Unless underwear type practices, otherwise bones should be installed in the lining, not should be installed in the surface of the clothes.
lining
The general YuSha should do. But in here to introduce two fastidious practice. The first is the marriage gauze of abdominal place outfit, helps to promote abdominal curve, still have a kind of way is in the chest of the corresponding back two of the same DaGou bra, in this style with the chest type in marriage gauze application can make chest type perfect, and clothes and body fit well. For some softer marriage gauze fabrics, exquisite also in marriage gauze fabrics inside lining a layer of soft gauze nets.
skirt
The skirt lining yarn can't because we want to wear petticoat and saved. Generally 3 to 6 layers can be. This can cover up the bones of a petticoat her cheek. Fish, straight body, can not consider lining yarn.
Herringbone yarn
In addition to line yarn, large delay marriage gauze skirt, must be in a circle on the edge with fishbone yarn. Is a kind of hard yarn. This hard should be wrapped in gauze satin edge inside. Advantage is that it can make skirt natural prolapse, and natural dragged back, not because around but skirt knit up. Many trailing a beginning will people out flat, then walked a few steps cloth will knit up, to help even bridesmaids. With these hard yarn won't, to a 360 degree turn also won't have a problem, it's still very flat.
Chest against
According to individual be fond of. Do not advocate outfit chest against, because a look that is false, the clothes in the chest not natural. But should still should see individual be fond of.
embroidery
Generally flower shop than the process cheaper embroidery pattern. Embroidery is to spend time, human. Spread the cut good bud silk flower is posted on satin above.
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Wearing a white dress is different from the fashion and evening dress, is the bride in life, the most important dress, thus in the tens of thousands of in marriage gauze, narrow range, until eventually try on several sets will make the final decision. Today we go with you to talk about not for the attention of everyone choose marriage gauze details! Must make wedding dress every detail, was perfect, become beautiful memories of her lifetime.
herringbone
Not every kind of design all need the fishbone, straight body design will not need. Also not each clothes herringbone added the more the better. Generally speaking four root can, at most 6 root. Of course there are some underwear design practice inside can add to the root. Good fish bone soft and toughness. Not to be hard can tree up is a good bones, flexibility is good is. Unless underwear type practices, otherwise bones should be installed in the lining, not should be installed in the surface of the clothes.
lining
The general YuSha should do. But in here to introduce two fastidious practice. The first is the marriage gauze of abdominal place outfit, helps to promote abdominal curve, still have a kind of way is in the chest of the corresponding back two of the same DaGou bra, in this style with the chest type in marriage gauze application can make chest type perfect, and clothes and body fit well. For some softer marriage gauze fabrics, exquisite also in marriage gauze fabrics inside lining a layer of soft gauze nets.
skirt
The skirt lining yarn can't because we want to wear petticoat and saved. Generally 3 to 6 layers can be. This can cover up the bones of a petticoat her cheek. Fish, straight body, can not consider lining yarn.
Herringbone yarn
In addition to line yarn, large delay marriage gauze skirt, must be in a circle on the edge with fishbone yarn. Is a kind of hard yarn. This hard should be wrapped in gauze satin edge inside. Advantage is that it can make skirt natural prolapse, and natural dragged back, not because around but skirt knit up. Many trailing a beginning will people out flat, then walked a few steps cloth will knit up, to help even bridesmaids. With these hard yarn won't, to a 360 degree turn also won't have a problem, it's still very flat.
Chest against
According to individual be fond of. Do not advocate outfit chest against, because a look that is false, the clothes in the chest not natural. But should still should see individual be fond of.
embroidery
Generally flower shop than the process cheaper embroidery pattern. Embroidery is to spend time, human. Spread the cut good bud silk flower is posted on satin above.
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Highlight perfect curve fishplate gown
Every girl in the mind all hidden a can't say secrets, looking forward to the day can put on fish marriage gauze, blossom mermaid princess grace of magic. Proper wiping a bosom design, clever highlighted the bride full chest. So, what is worth to recommend the marriage gauze tail?
"The daughter of the sea" as Anderson's a vivid image, many girls don't but fresh and it will be in the beauty of her admiration. In the life most important moment put on such a beautiful wedding dress fish, to show the world the princess grace and beauty. The guangzhou city.china bride must be in mind think vanda vivid appearance series, but also is not to say that all the girls like the tail marriage gauze, and, fishplate to the bride's wedding dress figure also have certain requirements.
Although fishplate to be bride wedding dress of the figure is very nice, but wear up after it had on aesthetic feeling that one. If you be aware to stop those members of the upper classes in Paris, it is not hard to find their favorite fish style is, it becomes a symbol of status. Fish skirt has a comparatively significantly characteristics, that is its never-ending journey skirt is equal shoulder width, main basis the bride figure curve cut, will be a very good the bride's outline perfect show.
The whole process is cut fish wedding dress according to the outline of the outline of the bride body design, even if the human body is completely cover word, also can very good show the human body shape. And, in the bride's wedding dress like a choice, does not need to petticoat, the skirt at the lower end of the can also design a mermaid style.
And not to say that choose fish marriage gauze gets the job done, with the top still need to spend some time. A pair of high-heeled shoes can let the bride more radiant and colourful have recalled of power. In addition, the right chest with good design of the bride full bosom curve appear.
Fish marriage gauze also have a feature is the curve of his plays, the design inspiration is hip from the waist style, the whole wedding dress looks like is alive mermaid of their beautiful lawsuit said. For some of the bride was a little meat meat, had better be able to choose some gauze in modified.
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"The daughter of the sea" as Anderson's a vivid image, many girls don't but fresh and it will be in the beauty of her admiration. In the life most important moment put on such a beautiful wedding dress fish, to show the world the princess grace and beauty. The guangzhou city.china bride must be in mind think vanda vivid appearance series, but also is not to say that all the girls like the tail marriage gauze, and, fishplate to the bride's wedding dress figure also have certain requirements.
Although fishplate to be bride wedding dress of the figure is very nice, but wear up after it had on aesthetic feeling that one. If you be aware to stop those members of the upper classes in Paris, it is not hard to find their favorite fish style is, it becomes a symbol of status. Fish skirt has a comparatively significantly characteristics, that is its never-ending journey skirt is equal shoulder width, main basis the bride figure curve cut, will be a very good the bride's outline perfect show.
The whole process is cut fish wedding dress according to the outline of the outline of the bride body design, even if the human body is completely cover word, also can very good show the human body shape. And, in the bride's wedding dress like a choice, does not need to petticoat, the skirt at the lower end of the can also design a mermaid style.
And not to say that choose fish marriage gauze gets the job done, with the top still need to spend some time. A pair of high-heeled shoes can let the bride more radiant and colourful have recalled of power. In addition, the right chest with good design of the bride full bosom curve appear.
Fish marriage gauze also have a feature is the curve of his plays, the design inspiration is hip from the waist style, the whole wedding dress looks like is alive mermaid of their beautiful lawsuit said. For some of the bride was a little meat meat, had better be able to choose some gauze in modified.
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Incredible marriage customs let you a music around
1, France--the legend of eggs
In some rural France has such traditional customs: the girl in marriage that day, to secretly take a few eggs Tibet in the clothing. When the bridegroom accompanies the bride the nuptial chamber, and the bride intentionally tumbles, mix the egg touch to break, can give birth the children by this symbol.
White is the French romantic marriage white wedding's color, whether with flower arrangement, or the bride's clothes, and even all arranged adornment, all is white,
Can see France in the eyes of the marriage should be pure. The wedding, the bride will be prepared, called "Weddingarmosre" for the cabinet of the dowry, engraved with manual fine fine on health and prosperity, symbol design, is have again "magazine of hope" the laudatory name; And in new talent with cup also has the specific name, called the "Coupdemarriage" means "the cup of wedding"
2, Thailand-and the trees of their marriage
Thai people are quite believe in Buddhism, Buddhism is recognized as the state religion. Every man at a certain age, have a house to a monk, little is three months, is more than 35 years, or even a lifetime, even is no exception. If a man not as a monk, it cannot be regarded as an adult, not only relatives and look down upon, even to look for the girlfriend is very difficult also. Buddhism in Thailand has more visible big influence. This buddhist etiquette even performance in the ceremony.
In some parts of southern Thailand, often can see some people around a banging away trees, singing ManWu, originally is the local men in their marriage ceremony held and the tree. Don't look at the object of their marriage is not talking tree, but ceremony with the true but men and women as the wedding ceremony was lively.
Married with trees, the man sent the price being paid filled in the silver bowl, called "niche" flower "or" niche "food". Niches and spend is usually 25 betelnut fruit, and food is for more niche's favorite snacks, candy, and the pillow, the mat and candles, etc.
The wedding ceremony before the start of the bridegroom, and dressed in a luxuriant dress, in all the a dolled herself up girl to speak, ChangGu by saying, the formidable came to the village elders in selected before the big tree. Girls will be displayed in the price being paid "the bride tree" before, announced the beginning of the elders. At this time, the groom will out a candle, and lit them one by one, into one in niches and side, and then read the scriptures to the elders out of the relevant section. Then, the groom's father put some fresh flowers, betelnut and several missiles silver on the pillow and niches, most older in the village to the old lady represents "new niang tree" accept gifts, candles are out, the wedding ceremony. People began to the groom, best and a meal, and after song dance together, until the evening.
According to the local customs, anyone who is the age of 21 years old man will hold a wedding ceremony with trees. Finish after the ceremony, then the house monk, until after the resume secular life with women love marriage, a family. In the local traditional concepts of trees with exuberant vitality, married with trees, can get the Buddha bless, get loyalty to love, establish a happy family.
3, Mauritania--designed rob fat the bride
Moore is one of the major national Mauritania, their wedding is unique.
Long-term since, daughter's marriage is by when my mother's family, when father's can't intervention. A young man value which girl, his mother will be there with a gift to the girl's mother close there to propose, the girl's mother if agree, marriage and agreed down on the spot.
Moore in people's eyes, only waist thick, neck short, hip is prominent, the breast of the bride is recognized as high beauties. Because fat woman is a symbol of wealth. If a young man married obesity super wife, their wedding inevitable abnormal grand, many people will also worked from nacson, see the bride's looks.
In fact, in order to make "beauty marry niang", the mother always compete to research the way of obesity. Riches and honour the somebody else's girl, from the age of seven, are for the daily housemaid with grease on the body, drink milk, and eat high fat food, rarely participate in outdoor activities. The daughter of ordinary people every day to follow the arrangement of the parents also drink a lot of camel milk. In addition, the girls will take off regularly almost every day in the soft sand clothes turn roll around, it is said that that the body uneven place to wear away, see not the meat bones become fat girl.
The wedding, the bride's wedding dress with deep national colors. The groom dressed in white or blue enlargement of the new gown, head over a for three meters more white turbans. The bride dressed in colour and lustre bright-coloured flower skirt, head over to skirt the same color cloth scarf.
After the wedding, the couple together a week, then return to their parents' side. Two months later, then live together for a few days, and then to separate. So repeated cycle, for two years before and after. Two years later, the bridegroom with relatives and friends together, and finding camel came to the bride's family, will the bride to collect. Since then began to each other is not separate Cardiff wife to life.
Mauritania marriage customs in that person, it is to have certain origin. In the past, Mauritania is the marriage of early and often more than ten years old girl to marry. The bride is still a child, married every few days will be back to the home, the bride meet the various things about to her mother, the mother taught her how to do a carefully good daughter-in-law, to serve her and take care of her husband. Two years later, the bride grew up, can deal with the housework, move away from the mother, the bride and groom apart two life is over.
4, Mali-the bride to the full, hand, gum with black
Mali is a country of western Africa, where the marriage customs is more special.
According to Mali customs, before the ceremony, men and women both parties family to their tense and preparation. The man is cleaning the yard, and the family natural decorate bridal chamber, invited guests, and preparing for the wedding ceremony party, etc. The family are mainly is to prepare for a dowry and dress up the bride. Mali bride much attention to style. In order to let oneself appear more lively and vigorous, the bride will often take roll song hair straight, a wig will hair extension, again into countless root
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In some rural France has such traditional customs: the girl in marriage that day, to secretly take a few eggs Tibet in the clothing. When the bridegroom accompanies the bride the nuptial chamber, and the bride intentionally tumbles, mix the egg touch to break, can give birth the children by this symbol.
White is the French romantic marriage white wedding's color, whether with flower arrangement, or the bride's clothes, and even all arranged adornment, all is white,
Can see France in the eyes of the marriage should be pure. The wedding, the bride will be prepared, called "Weddingarmosre" for the cabinet of the dowry, engraved with manual fine fine on health and prosperity, symbol design, is have again "magazine of hope" the laudatory name; And in new talent with cup also has the specific name, called the "Coupdemarriage" means "the cup of wedding"
2, Thailand-and the trees of their marriage
Thai people are quite believe in Buddhism, Buddhism is recognized as the state religion. Every man at a certain age, have a house to a monk, little is three months, is more than 35 years, or even a lifetime, even is no exception. If a man not as a monk, it cannot be regarded as an adult, not only relatives and look down upon, even to look for the girlfriend is very difficult also. Buddhism in Thailand has more visible big influence. This buddhist etiquette even performance in the ceremony.
In some parts of southern Thailand, often can see some people around a banging away trees, singing ManWu, originally is the local men in their marriage ceremony held and the tree. Don't look at the object of their marriage is not talking tree, but ceremony with the true but men and women as the wedding ceremony was lively.
Married with trees, the man sent the price being paid filled in the silver bowl, called "niche" flower "or" niche "food". Niches and spend is usually 25 betelnut fruit, and food is for more niche's favorite snacks, candy, and the pillow, the mat and candles, etc.
The wedding ceremony before the start of the bridegroom, and dressed in a luxuriant dress, in all the a dolled herself up girl to speak, ChangGu by saying, the formidable came to the village elders in selected before the big tree. Girls will be displayed in the price being paid "the bride tree" before, announced the beginning of the elders. At this time, the groom will out a candle, and lit them one by one, into one in niches and side, and then read the scriptures to the elders out of the relevant section. Then, the groom's father put some fresh flowers, betelnut and several missiles silver on the pillow and niches, most older in the village to the old lady represents "new niang tree" accept gifts, candles are out, the wedding ceremony. People began to the groom, best and a meal, and after song dance together, until the evening.
According to the local customs, anyone who is the age of 21 years old man will hold a wedding ceremony with trees. Finish after the ceremony, then the house monk, until after the resume secular life with women love marriage, a family. In the local traditional concepts of trees with exuberant vitality, married with trees, can get the Buddha bless, get loyalty to love, establish a happy family.
3, Mauritania--designed rob fat the bride
Moore is one of the major national Mauritania, their wedding is unique.
Long-term since, daughter's marriage is by when my mother's family, when father's can't intervention. A young man value which girl, his mother will be there with a gift to the girl's mother close there to propose, the girl's mother if agree, marriage and agreed down on the spot.
Moore in people's eyes, only waist thick, neck short, hip is prominent, the breast of the bride is recognized as high beauties. Because fat woman is a symbol of wealth. If a young man married obesity super wife, their wedding inevitable abnormal grand, many people will also worked from nacson, see the bride's looks.
In fact, in order to make "beauty marry niang", the mother always compete to research the way of obesity. Riches and honour the somebody else's girl, from the age of seven, are for the daily housemaid with grease on the body, drink milk, and eat high fat food, rarely participate in outdoor activities. The daughter of ordinary people every day to follow the arrangement of the parents also drink a lot of camel milk. In addition, the girls will take off regularly almost every day in the soft sand clothes turn roll around, it is said that that the body uneven place to wear away, see not the meat bones become fat girl.
The wedding, the bride's wedding dress with deep national colors. The groom dressed in white or blue enlargement of the new gown, head over a for three meters more white turbans. The bride dressed in colour and lustre bright-coloured flower skirt, head over to skirt the same color cloth scarf.
After the wedding, the couple together a week, then return to their parents' side. Two months later, then live together for a few days, and then to separate. So repeated cycle, for two years before and after. Two years later, the bridegroom with relatives and friends together, and finding camel came to the bride's family, will the bride to collect. Since then began to each other is not separate Cardiff wife to life.
Mauritania marriage customs in that person, it is to have certain origin. In the past, Mauritania is the marriage of early and often more than ten years old girl to marry. The bride is still a child, married every few days will be back to the home, the bride meet the various things about to her mother, the mother taught her how to do a carefully good daughter-in-law, to serve her and take care of her husband. Two years later, the bride grew up, can deal with the housework, move away from the mother, the bride and groom apart two life is over.
4, Mali-the bride to the full, hand, gum with black
Mali is a country of western Africa, where the marriage customs is more special.
According to Mali customs, before the ceremony, men and women both parties family to their tense and preparation. The man is cleaning the yard, and the family natural decorate bridal chamber, invited guests, and preparing for the wedding ceremony party, etc. The family are mainly is to prepare for a dowry and dress up the bride. Mali bride much attention to style. In order to let oneself appear more lively and vigorous, the bride will often take roll song hair straight, a wig will hair extension, again into countless root
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7 kinds of Hot classic wedding color scheme
The colour clever apply can greatly improve the quality of the wedding, different theme wedding can use different color to convey, in color and color, the crisscross of light and shadow search for different case tone. Small make up recommend to you the hottest wedding of seven color scheme, which type is your favorite?
1. The pink peach color wedding
Like pink bride is love romantic girl, always brings a person with the colors of the peach light sweet, with such colour adornment wedding will be full of thick happiness. Whether flower art, cake, the toast covers or adornment small things, everything is so tender and inviting.
Colour collocation: different shades of pink, shallow brown, green light
2. The yellow and blue passion collisions
"Bump color" is now popular color matching method, and yellow and blue bump color is undoubtedly the most eye-catching one of the match. Bright yellow lively jump out, let the quiet of the blue also appears nifty reiki up.
Colour collocation: yellow, blue, shallow ash
3. Brown and white snow forest
If the wedding is held in in the winter, so use some winter color can better rendering winter this theme. Brown, green, white colour of these nature ably collocation, pinecone, trees, white snow these elements can let your wedding extraordinary.
Colour is tie-in, white, green, brown, brown
4. The quiet of the blue wedding
Light blue wedding can always bring a person pure and fresh and elegant feeling. If you are a like quiet bride, so this dopey voice is very suitable for you. Blue and white is cold tonal, can bring fresh and cool feeling it, also can make the space appears more open, like lively festival of new careful have the colour.
Colour collocation: white, black, brown, blue
5. Golden pink build
The gold and pink belong to warm color department, ably collocation are together, can let the wedding to make people feel very warm and comfortable, if in the wedding place cannot provide natural lighting, use this kind of color can feel the layout of environment appears compact and warm. Pink is tender color, also represents girl pursuit of romantic feelings. Gold is luxuriant and expensive gas, these two kinds of colour collocation, make the dream princess temperament.
Colour collocation: pink, brown, brown, shallow ash
6. High grey alternative wedding color
With gray for wedding theme color is very, very rare, the average people like warmth, festive colors. But if used correctly, the gray can also create another sort of flavor, make your wedding personality, extraordinary.
Colour collocation: white, light brown, shallow brown, shallow gray
7. The forest is pure and fresh and green
Like nature of pure and fresh, so green outdoor wedding can satisfy your needs. With bouncing, fresh green decorate the table, ceremony area, with wooden chair of mensal, eat, again with a white gauze, the adornment such as BaiChou, spring in the harmonious and perfect colour collocation.
Colour collocation: green, deep brown, shallow ash, white, lilac
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1. The pink peach color wedding
Like pink bride is love romantic girl, always brings a person with the colors of the peach light sweet, with such colour adornment wedding will be full of thick happiness. Whether flower art, cake, the toast covers or adornment small things, everything is so tender and inviting.
Colour collocation: different shades of pink, shallow brown, green light
2. The yellow and blue passion collisions
"Bump color" is now popular color matching method, and yellow and blue bump color is undoubtedly the most eye-catching one of the match. Bright yellow lively jump out, let the quiet of the blue also appears nifty reiki up.
Colour collocation: yellow, blue, shallow ash
3. Brown and white snow forest
If the wedding is held in in the winter, so use some winter color can better rendering winter this theme. Brown, green, white colour of these nature ably collocation, pinecone, trees, white snow these elements can let your wedding extraordinary.
Colour is tie-in, white, green, brown, brown
4. The quiet of the blue wedding
Light blue wedding can always bring a person pure and fresh and elegant feeling. If you are a like quiet bride, so this dopey voice is very suitable for you. Blue and white is cold tonal, can bring fresh and cool feeling it, also can make the space appears more open, like lively festival of new careful have the colour.
Colour collocation: white, black, brown, blue
5. Golden pink build
The gold and pink belong to warm color department, ably collocation are together, can let the wedding to make people feel very warm and comfortable, if in the wedding place cannot provide natural lighting, use this kind of color can feel the layout of environment appears compact and warm. Pink is tender color, also represents girl pursuit of romantic feelings. Gold is luxuriant and expensive gas, these two kinds of colour collocation, make the dream princess temperament.
Colour collocation: pink, brown, brown, shallow ash
6. High grey alternative wedding color
With gray for wedding theme color is very, very rare, the average people like warmth, festive colors. But if used correctly, the gray can also create another sort of flavor, make your wedding personality, extraordinary.
Colour collocation: white, light brown, shallow brown, shallow gray
7. The forest is pure and fresh and green
Like nature of pure and fresh, so green outdoor wedding can satisfy your needs. With bouncing, fresh green decorate the table, ceremony area, with wooden chair of mensal, eat, again with a white gauze, the adornment such as BaiChou, spring in the harmonious and perfect colour collocation.
Colour collocation: green, deep brown, shallow ash, white, lilac
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Wikipedia wedding! Western countries wedding customs
In America, Britain and other western countries, in the ceremony, the bride and groom is unique wedding testimony, and the traditional Chinese wedding customs and the wedding ceremony is not big. General is to hold the Lord by father, these is said to be the ancient originated from the wedding custom......
veil
At first the bride wear a veil is as a young and the symbol of virginity, Catholic bride wear a veil represent purity. Therefore, many the bride to the wedding in church when choose wear double veil, the father of the bride will after daughter to the groom, groom unveiled by hand.
Diamond ring
The bible says, in ancient times, men marry women to the evidence is ring. 9 th century, the Pope Nicholas I enacted laws, regulations, the man presented the wedding ring to woman is formally proposed essential steps.
tire
The bride wedding day the custom of wearing the headdress, has a long history, the old woman in the best age to get married will be wearing garlands, so as to distinguish from married women, a symbol of the virgin.
The color of the bridal gown
The color of the wedding dress represents the traditional, also have particular meanings: white for pure virgin, American and British common yellow is the symbol of love and rich.
bouquet
Flowers represent passion and reward, transmits the prosperity and rich and extraordinary message, to the bridal bouquet will have good luck, also will be next to tie the knot.
The bride stood in the left side of the bridegroom
This custom originated in popular s reveal, worried about the bride's family will be in the wedding will be the bride rob back, the groom must take the right hand at any time to a response.
Kiss each other
According to custom, the wedding ceremony is the new kiss to an end. It has a profound meaning of a kiss: through the kiss, a person's breath and part of the soul will stay in another person inside body, love makes them together.
Holding the bride into the bridal chamber
This custom is from some native tribes in the marriage customs of evolved, because these tribes of the single woman too little, so the man to neighboring villages rob close, will carry them away, so that they will run away with. Today, people think, the bride can't use the left foot forward into the new house door, so it is best to let the bridegroom bride will hold a room.
The couple's car
When the couple honeymoon start by bus, the car will be on the back of the many cans tied, it originated in ancient custom of throwing shoes, the wedding guests to throw the new shoes, that if there are shoes hit the new car ride, that will bring good luck.
Car horns
With the new car all the way behind the team kept whistling, to ward off the evil.
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veil
At first the bride wear a veil is as a young and the symbol of virginity, Catholic bride wear a veil represent purity. Therefore, many the bride to the wedding in church when choose wear double veil, the father of the bride will after daughter to the groom, groom unveiled by hand.
Diamond ring
The bible says, in ancient times, men marry women to the evidence is ring. 9 th century, the Pope Nicholas I enacted laws, regulations, the man presented the wedding ring to woman is formally proposed essential steps.
tire
The bride wedding day the custom of wearing the headdress, has a long history, the old woman in the best age to get married will be wearing garlands, so as to distinguish from married women, a symbol of the virgin.
The color of the bridal gown
The color of the wedding dress represents the traditional, also have particular meanings: white for pure virgin, American and British common yellow is the symbol of love and rich.
bouquet
Flowers represent passion and reward, transmits the prosperity and rich and extraordinary message, to the bridal bouquet will have good luck, also will be next to tie the knot.
The bride stood in the left side of the bridegroom
This custom originated in popular s reveal, worried about the bride's family will be in the wedding will be the bride rob back, the groom must take the right hand at any time to a response.
Kiss each other
According to custom, the wedding ceremony is the new kiss to an end. It has a profound meaning of a kiss: through the kiss, a person's breath and part of the soul will stay in another person inside body, love makes them together.
Holding the bride into the bridal chamber
This custom is from some native tribes in the marriage customs of evolved, because these tribes of the single woman too little, so the man to neighboring villages rob close, will carry them away, so that they will run away with. Today, people think, the bride can't use the left foot forward into the new house door, so it is best to let the bridegroom bride will hold a room.
The couple's car
When the couple honeymoon start by bus, the car will be on the back of the many cans tied, it originated in ancient custom of throwing shoes, the wedding guests to throw the new shoes, that if there are shoes hit the new car ride, that will bring good luck.
Car horns
With the new car all the way behind the team kept whistling, to ward off the evil.
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2012年2月27日星期一
A wedding was just what people needed to show their joy
All of these people and many others received engraved invitations to the wedding of Miss Constanzia Corleone, to be celebrated on the last Saturday in August 1945. The father of the bride, Don Vito Corleone, never forgot his old friends and neighbors though he himself now lived in a huge house on Long Island. The reception would be held in that house and the festivities would go on all day. There was no doubt it would be a momentous occasion. The war with the Japanese had just ended so there would not be any nagging fear for their sons fighting in the Army to cloud these festivities. A wedding was just what people needed to show their joy.
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And so on that Saturday morning the friends of Don Corleone streamed out of New York City to do him honor. They bore cream-colored envelopes stuffed with cash as bridal gifts, no checks. Inside each envelope a card established the identity of the giver and the measure of his respect for the Godfather. A respect truly earned.
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Don Vito Corleone was a man to whom everybody came for help, and never were they disappointed. He made no empty promises, nor the craven excuse that his hands were tied by more powerful forces in the world than himself. It was not necessary that he be your friend, it was not even important that you had no means with which to repay him. Only one thing was required. That you, you yourself, proclaim your friendship. And then, no matter how poor or powerless the supplicant, Don Corleone would take that man's troubles to his heart. And he would let nothing stand in the way to a solution of that man's woe. His reward? Friendship, the respectful title of "Don," and sometimes the more affectionate salutation of "Godfather. corset wedding dresses " And perhaps, to show respect only, never for profit, some humble gift--- a gallon of homemade wine or a basket of peppered taralles--- specially baked to grace his Christmas table. It was understood, it was mere good manners, to proclaim that you were in his debt and that he had the right to call upon you at any time to redeem your debt by some small service.
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And so on that Saturday morning the friends of Don Corleone streamed out of New York City to do him honor. They bore cream-colored envelopes stuffed with cash as bridal gifts, no checks. Inside each envelope a card established the identity of the giver and the measure of his respect for the Godfather. A respect truly earned.
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Don Vito Corleone was a man to whom everybody came for help, and never were they disappointed. He made no empty promises, nor the craven excuse that his hands were tied by more powerful forces in the world than himself. It was not necessary that he be your friend, it was not even important that you had no means with which to repay him. Only one thing was required. That you, you yourself, proclaim your friendship. And then, no matter how poor or powerless the supplicant, Don Corleone would take that man's troubles to his heart. And he would let nothing stand in the way to a solution of that man's woe. His reward? Friendship, the respectful title of "Don," and sometimes the more affectionate salutation of "Godfather. corset wedding dresses " And perhaps, to show respect only, never for profit, some humble gift--- a gallon of homemade wine or a basket of peppered taralles--- specially baked to grace his Christmas table. It was understood, it was mere good manners, to proclaim that you were in his debt and that he had the right to call upon you at any time to redeem your debt by some small service.
2012年2月24日星期五
It's like seeing your mother again
"Mother's fine," Barbara was saying while, at the same time, Billy was pouring into his father's ear a great deal of information concerning his wireless. Peggy in breathless, excited words was pointing out to the bewildered Keineth the sights of Fairview.
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Genevieve, with many puffs and snorts and queer noises from under her bonnet, crawled gallantly along the smooth road, up a hill, turned in between two stone posts and stopped. Down the steps ran a woman who seemed to Keineth only a little older than Barbara, She kissed Mr. Lee, then, pushing the eager children aside, turned to Keineth.
"Here she is, mother," called out Peggy, drawing Keineth forward.
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Mrs. Lee took Keineth in her arms and held her very close for a moment. When she released her she put her hand under Keineth's chin to lift her face.
"It's like seeing your mother again," she laughed, although there was a queer little catch in her voice.
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"You'll be Peggy's twin," she added, starting up the steps. "Bring in their bags, Billy. Barb--let's give Dad a nice hot cup of coffee! Peggy, you make Keineth perfectly at home."
Keineth took off her hat and coat. Very willingly Peggy took her in charge.
"I'll show you the garden," she said.
"Let's go down to the beach!" cried Alice, following.
"Do you want to see my wireless set?" invited Billy.
"Billy thinks that's the only interesting thing about Overlook!"
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Genevieve, with many puffs and snorts and queer noises from under her bonnet, crawled gallantly along the smooth road, up a hill, turned in between two stone posts and stopped. Down the steps ran a woman who seemed to Keineth only a little older than Barbara, She kissed Mr. Lee, then, pushing the eager children aside, turned to Keineth.
"Here she is, mother," called out Peggy, drawing Keineth forward.
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Mrs. Lee took Keineth in her arms and held her very close for a moment. When she released her she put her hand under Keineth's chin to lift her face.
"It's like seeing your mother again," she laughed, although there was a queer little catch in her voice.
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"You'll be Peggy's twin," she added, starting up the steps. "Bring in their bags, Billy. Barb--let's give Dad a nice hot cup of coffee! Peggy, you make Keineth perfectly at home."
Keineth took off her hat and coat. Very willingly Peggy took her in charge.
"I'll show you the garden," she said.
"Let's go down to the beach!" cried Alice, following.
"Do you want to see my wireless set?" invited Billy.
"Billy thinks that's the only interesting thing about Overlook!"
2012年2月23日星期四
He was standing so when his old friend grasped his arm
"Seems mightily interested," said one, suggestively.
"What a pretty face," added another, also suggestively.
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The Doctor spoke quickly, "Why that's--" Then he stopped with an expression on his face that came very near being a malicious grin.
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The conductor, watch again in hand, shouted, the porters stepped aboard, the bell rang, the engineer, with his long oil-can, swung to his cab, slowly the heavy train began to gather headway. As it went Dan walked along the platform beside that open window, until he could no longer keep pace with the moving car. Then with a final wave of his hand he stood looking after the train, seemingly unconscious of everything but that one who was being carried so quickly beyond his sight.
He was standing so when his old friend grasped his arm. He turned with a start. "Doctor!"
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What a handsome fellow he was, with his father's great body, powerful limbs and shaggy red-brown hair; and his mother's eyes and mouth, and her spirit ruling within him, making you feel that he was clean through and through. It was no wonder people stood around looking at him. The Doctor felt again that old, mysterious spell, that feeling that the boy was a revelation to him of something he had always known, the living embodiment of a truth never acknowledged. And his heart swelled with pride as he turned to lead Dan up to Elder Jordan and his company.
The church ladies, old in experience with preachers, seemed strangely embarrassed. This one was somehow so different from those they had known before, but their eyes were full of admiration. Charity's voice trembled as she bade him welcome. Nathaniel's manner was that of a judge. Dan himself, was as calm and self possessed as if he and the Doctor were alone on the bank of some river, far from church and church people. But the Doctor thought that the boy flinched a bit when he introduced him as Reverend Matthews. Perhaps, though, it was merely the Doctor's fancy. The old man felt too, even as he presented Dan to his people, that there had come between himself and the boy a something that was never there before, and it troubled him not a little. But perhaps this, too, was but a fancy.
"What a pretty face," added another, also suggestively.
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The Doctor spoke quickly, "Why that's--" Then he stopped with an expression on his face that came very near being a malicious grin.
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The conductor, watch again in hand, shouted, the porters stepped aboard, the bell rang, the engineer, with his long oil-can, swung to his cab, slowly the heavy train began to gather headway. As it went Dan walked along the platform beside that open window, until he could no longer keep pace with the moving car. Then with a final wave of his hand he stood looking after the train, seemingly unconscious of everything but that one who was being carried so quickly beyond his sight.
He was standing so when his old friend grasped his arm. He turned with a start. "Doctor!"
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What a handsome fellow he was, with his father's great body, powerful limbs and shaggy red-brown hair; and his mother's eyes and mouth, and her spirit ruling within him, making you feel that he was clean through and through. It was no wonder people stood around looking at him. The Doctor felt again that old, mysterious spell, that feeling that the boy was a revelation to him of something he had always known, the living embodiment of a truth never acknowledged. And his heart swelled with pride as he turned to lead Dan up to Elder Jordan and his company.
The church ladies, old in experience with preachers, seemed strangely embarrassed. This one was somehow so different from those they had known before, but their eyes were full of admiration. Charity's voice trembled as she bade him welcome. Nathaniel's manner was that of a judge. Dan himself, was as calm and self possessed as if he and the Doctor were alone on the bank of some river, far from church and church people. But the Doctor thought that the boy flinched a bit when he introduced him as Reverend Matthews. Perhaps, though, it was merely the Doctor's fancy. The old man felt too, even as he presented Dan to his people, that there had come between himself and the boy a something that was never there before, and it troubled him not a little. But perhaps this, too, was but a fancy.
2012年2月20日星期一
I was born in a ditch
'Why has he been - so very much - Goosed?' asked Mr. Gradgrind, forcing the word out of himself, with great solemnity and reluctance.
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'His joints are turning stiff, and he is getting used up,' said Childers. 'He has his points as a Cackler still, but he can't get a living out of them.'
'A Cackler!' Bounderby repeated. 'Here we go again!'
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'A speaker, if the gentleman likes it better,' said Mr. E. W. B. Childers, superciliously throwing the interpretation over his shoulder, and accompanying it with a shake of his long hair - which all shook at once. 'Now, it's a remarkable fact, sir, that it cut that man deeper, to know that his daughter knew of his being goosed, than to go through with it.'
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'Good!' interrupted Mr. Bounderby. 'This is good, Gradgrind! A man so fond of his daughter, that he runs away from her! This is devilish good! Ha! ha! Now, I'll tell you what, young man. I haven't always occupied my present station of life. I know what these things are. You may be astonished to hear it, but my mother - ran away from me.'
E. W. B. Childers replied pointedly, that he was not at all astonished to hear it.
'Very well,' said Bounderby. 'I was born in a ditch, and my mother ran away from me. Do I excuse her for it? No. Have I ever excused her for it? Not I. What do I call her for it? I call her probably the very worst woman that ever lived in the world, except my drunken grandmother. There's no family pride about me, there's no imaginative sentimental humbug about me. I call a spade a spade; and I call the mother of Josiah Bounderby of Coketown, without any fear or any favour, what I should call her if she had been the mother of Dick Jones of Wapping. So, with this man. He is a runaway rogue and a vagabond, that's what he is, in English.'
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'His joints are turning stiff, and he is getting used up,' said Childers. 'He has his points as a Cackler still, but he can't get a living out of them.'
'A Cackler!' Bounderby repeated. 'Here we go again!'
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'A speaker, if the gentleman likes it better,' said Mr. E. W. B. Childers, superciliously throwing the interpretation over his shoulder, and accompanying it with a shake of his long hair - which all shook at once. 'Now, it's a remarkable fact, sir, that it cut that man deeper, to know that his daughter knew of his being goosed, than to go through with it.'
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'Good!' interrupted Mr. Bounderby. 'This is good, Gradgrind! A man so fond of his daughter, that he runs away from her! This is devilish good! Ha! ha! Now, I'll tell you what, young man. I haven't always occupied my present station of life. I know what these things are. You may be astonished to hear it, but my mother - ran away from me.'
E. W. B. Childers replied pointedly, that he was not at all astonished to hear it.
'Very well,' said Bounderby. 'I was born in a ditch, and my mother ran away from me. Do I excuse her for it? No. Have I ever excused her for it? Not I. What do I call her for it? I call her probably the very worst woman that ever lived in the world, except my drunken grandmother. There's no family pride about me, there's no imaginative sentimental humbug about me. I call a spade a spade; and I call the mother of Josiah Bounderby of Coketown, without any fear or any favour, what I should call her if she had been the mother of Dick Jones of Wapping. So, with this man. He is a runaway rogue and a vagabond, that's what he is, in English.'
I never saw the man in my life
'Nine oils, Merrylegs, missing tips, garters, banners, and Ponging, eh!' ejaculated Bounderby, with his laugh of laughs. 'Queer sort of company, too, for a man who has raised himself!'
'Lower yourself, then,' retorted Cupid. 'Oh Lord! if you've raised yourself so high as all that comes to, let yourself down a bit.'
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'This is a very obtrusive lad!' said Mr. Gradgrind, turning, and knitting his brows on him.
'We'd have had a young gentleman to meet you, if we had known you were coming,' retorted Master Kidderminster, nothing abashed. 'It's a pity you don't have a bespeak, being so particular. You're on the Tight-Jeff, ain't you?'
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'What does this unmannerly boy mean,' asked Mr. Gradgrind, eyeing him in a sort of desperation, 'by Tight-Jeff?'
'There! Get out, get out!' said Mr. Childers, thrusting his young friend from the room, rather in the prairie manner. 'Tight-Jeff or Slack-Jeff, it don't much signify: it's only tight-rope and slack- rope. You were going to give me a message for Jupe?'
'Yes, I was.'
'Then,' continued Mr. Childers, quickly, 'my opinion is, he will never receive it. Do you know much of him?'
'I never saw the man in my life.'
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'I doubt if you ever will see him now. It's pretty plain to me, he's off.'
'Do you mean that he has deserted his daughter?'
'Ay! I mean,' said Mr. Childers, with a nod, 'that he has cut. He was goosed last night, he was goosed the night before last, he was goosed to-day. He has lately got in the way of being always goosed, and he can't stand it.'
'Lower yourself, then,' retorted Cupid. 'Oh Lord! if you've raised yourself so high as all that comes to, let yourself down a bit.'
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'This is a very obtrusive lad!' said Mr. Gradgrind, turning, and knitting his brows on him.
'We'd have had a young gentleman to meet you, if we had known you were coming,' retorted Master Kidderminster, nothing abashed. 'It's a pity you don't have a bespeak, being so particular. You're on the Tight-Jeff, ain't you?'
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'What does this unmannerly boy mean,' asked Mr. Gradgrind, eyeing him in a sort of desperation, 'by Tight-Jeff?'
'There! Get out, get out!' said Mr. Childers, thrusting his young friend from the room, rather in the prairie manner. 'Tight-Jeff or Slack-Jeff, it don't much signify: it's only tight-rope and slack- rope. You were going to give me a message for Jupe?'
'Yes, I was.'
'Then,' continued Mr. Childers, quickly, 'my opinion is, he will never receive it. Do you know much of him?'
'I never saw the man in my life.'
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'I doubt if you ever will see him now. It's pretty plain to me, he's off.'
'Do you mean that he has deserted his daughter?'
'Ay! I mean,' said Mr. Childers, with a nod, 'that he has cut. He was goosed last night, he was goosed the night before last, he was goosed to-day. He has lately got in the way of being always goosed, and he can't stand it.'
Was short in his leaps and bad in his tumbling
'I have not,' retorted Mr. Childers, after surveying him from head to foot, 'the honour of knowing you, - but if you mean that you can make more money of your time than I can of mine, I should judge from your appearance, that you are about right.'
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'And when you have made it, you can keep it too, I should think,' said Cupid.
'Kidderminster, stow that!' said Mr. Childers. (Master Kidderminster was Cupid's mortal name.)
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'What does he come here cheeking us for, then?' cried Master Kidderminster, showing a very irascible temperament. 'If you want to cheek us, pay your ochre at the doors and take it out.'
'Kidderminster,' said Mr. Childers, raising his voice, 'stow that! - Sir,' to Mr. Gradgrind, 'I was addressing myself to you. You may or you may not be aware (for perhaps you have not been much in the audience), that Jupe has missed his tip very often, lately.'
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'Has - what has he missed?' asked Mr. Gradgrind, glancing at the potent Bounderby for assistance.
'Missed his tip.'
'Offered at the Garters four times last night, and never done 'em once,' said Master Kidderminster. 'Missed his tip at the banners, too, and was loose in his ponging.'
'Didn't do what he ought to do. Was short in his leaps and bad in his tumbling,' Mr. Childers interpreted.
'Oh!' said Mr. Gradgrind, 'that is tip, is it?'
'In a general way that's missing his tip,' Mr. E. W. B. Childers answered.
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'And when you have made it, you can keep it too, I should think,' said Cupid.
'Kidderminster, stow that!' said Mr. Childers. (Master Kidderminster was Cupid's mortal name.)
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'What does he come here cheeking us for, then?' cried Master Kidderminster, showing a very irascible temperament. 'If you want to cheek us, pay your ochre at the doors and take it out.'
'Kidderminster,' said Mr. Childers, raising his voice, 'stow that! - Sir,' to Mr. Gradgrind, 'I was addressing myself to you. You may or you may not be aware (for perhaps you have not been much in the audience), that Jupe has missed his tip very often, lately.'
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'Has - what has he missed?' asked Mr. Gradgrind, glancing at the potent Bounderby for assistance.
'Missed his tip.'
'Offered at the Garters four times last night, and never done 'em once,' said Master Kidderminster. 'Missed his tip at the banners, too, and was loose in his ponging.'
'Didn't do what he ought to do. Was short in his leaps and bad in his tumbling,' Mr. Childers interpreted.
'Oh!' said Mr. Gradgrind, 'that is tip, is it?'
'In a general way that's missing his tip,' Mr. E. W. B. Childers answered.
His daughter has gone to fetch him
'Father must have gone down to the Booth, sir. I don't know why he should go there, but he must be there; I'll bring him in a minute!' She was gone directly, without her bonnet; with her long, dark, childish hair streaming behind her.
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'What does she mean!' said Mr. Gradgrind. 'Back in a minute? It's more than a mile off.'
Before Mr. Bounderby could reply, a young man appeared at the door, and introducing himself with the words, 'By your leaves, gentlemen!' walked in with his hands in his pockets. His face, close-shaven, thin, and sallow, was shaded by a great quantity of dark hair, brushed into a roll all round his head, and parted up the centre. His legs were very robust, but shorter than legs of good proportions should have been. His chest and back were as much too broad, as his legs were too short. He was dressed in a Newmarket coat and tight-fitting trousers; wore a shawl round his neck; smelt of lamp-oil, straw, orange-peel, horses' provender, and sawdust; and looked a most remarkable sort of Centaur, compounded of the stable and the play-house. Where the one began, and the other ended, nobody could have told with any precision. This gentleman was mentioned in the bills of the day as Mr. E. W. B. Childers, so justly celebrated for his daring vaulting act as the Wild Huntsman of the North American Prairies; in which popular performance, a diminutive boy with an old face, who now accompanied him, assisted as his infant son: being carried upside down over his father's shoulder, by one foot, and held by the crown of his head, heels upwards, in the palm of his father's hand, according to the violent paternal manner in which wild huntsmen may be observed to fondle their offspring. Made up with curls, wreaths, wings, white bismuth, and carmine, this hopeful young person soared into so pleasing a Cupid as to constitute the chief delight of the maternal part of the spectators; but in private, where his characteristics were a precocious cutaway coat and an extremely gruff voice, he became of the Turf, turfy.
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'By your leaves, gentlemen,' said Mr. E. W. B. Childers, glancing round the room. 'It was you, I believe, that were wishing to see Jupe!'
'It was,' said Mr. Gradgrind. 'His daughter has gone to fetch him, but I can't wait; therefore, if you please, I will leave a message for him with you.'
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'You see, my friend,' Mr. Bounderby put in, 'we are the kind of people who know the value of time, and you are the kind of people who don't know the value of time.'
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'What does she mean!' said Mr. Gradgrind. 'Back in a minute? It's more than a mile off.'
Before Mr. Bounderby could reply, a young man appeared at the door, and introducing himself with the words, 'By your leaves, gentlemen!' walked in with his hands in his pockets. His face, close-shaven, thin, and sallow, was shaded by a great quantity of dark hair, brushed into a roll all round his head, and parted up the centre. His legs were very robust, but shorter than legs of good proportions should have been. His chest and back were as much too broad, as his legs were too short. He was dressed in a Newmarket coat and tight-fitting trousers; wore a shawl round his neck; smelt of lamp-oil, straw, orange-peel, horses' provender, and sawdust; and looked a most remarkable sort of Centaur, compounded of the stable and the play-house. Where the one began, and the other ended, nobody could have told with any precision. This gentleman was mentioned in the bills of the day as Mr. E. W. B. Childers, so justly celebrated for his daring vaulting act as the Wild Huntsman of the North American Prairies; in which popular performance, a diminutive boy with an old face, who now accompanied him, assisted as his infant son: being carried upside down over his father's shoulder, by one foot, and held by the crown of his head, heels upwards, in the palm of his father's hand, according to the violent paternal manner in which wild huntsmen may be observed to fondle their offspring. Made up with curls, wreaths, wings, white bismuth, and carmine, this hopeful young person soared into so pleasing a Cupid as to constitute the chief delight of the maternal part of the spectators; but in private, where his characteristics were a precocious cutaway coat and an extremely gruff voice, he became of the Turf, turfy.
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'By your leaves, gentlemen,' said Mr. E. W. B. Childers, glancing round the room. 'It was you, I believe, that were wishing to see Jupe!'
'It was,' said Mr. Gradgrind. 'His daughter has gone to fetch him, but I can't wait; therefore, if you please, I will leave a message for him with you.'
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'You see, my friend,' Mr. Bounderby put in, 'we are the kind of people who know the value of time, and you are the kind of people who don't know the value of time.'
Father is not in our room
THE name of the public-house was the Pegasus's Arms. The Pegasus's legs might have been more to the purpose; but, underneath the winged horse upon the sign-board, the Pegasus's Arms was inscribed in Roman letters. Beneath that inscription again, in a flowing scroll, the painter had touched off the lines:
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Good malt makes good beer, Walk in, and they'll draw it here; Good wine makes good brandy, Give us a call, and you'll find it handy.
Framed and glazed upon the wall behind the dingy little bar, was another Pegasus - a theatrical one - with real gauze let in for his wings, golden stars stuck on all over him, and his ethereal harness made of red silk.
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As it had grown too dusky without, to see the sign, and as it had not grown light enough within to see the picture, Mr. Gradgrind and Mr. Bounderby received no offence from these idealities. They followed the girl up some steep corner-stairs without meeting any one, and stopped in the dark while she went on for a candle. They expected every moment to hear Merrylegs give tongue, but the highly trained performing dog had not barked when the girl and the candle appeared together.
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'Father is not in our room, sir,' she said, with a face of great surprise. 'If you wouldn't mind walking in, I'll find him directly.' They walked in; and Sissy, having set two chairs for them, sped away with a quick light step. It was a mean, shabbily furnished room, with a bed in it. The white night-cap, embellished with two peacock's feathers and a pigtail bolt upright, in which Signor Jupe had that very afternoon enlivened the varied performances with his chaste Shaksperean quips and retorts, hung upon a nail; but no other portion of his wardrobe, or other token of himself or his pursuits, was to be seen anywhere. As to Merrylegs, that respectable ancestor of the highly trained animal who went aboard the ark, might have been accidentally shut out of it, for any sign of a dog that was manifest to eye or ear in the Pegasus's Arms.
They heard the doors of rooms above, opening and shutting as Sissy went from one to another in quest of her father; and presently they heard voices expressing surprise. She came bounding down again in a great hurry, opened a battered and mangy old hair trunk, found it empty, and looked round with her hands clasped and her face full of terror.
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Good malt makes good beer, Walk in, and they'll draw it here; Good wine makes good brandy, Give us a call, and you'll find it handy.
Framed and glazed upon the wall behind the dingy little bar, was another Pegasus - a theatrical one - with real gauze let in for his wings, golden stars stuck on all over him, and his ethereal harness made of red silk.
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As it had grown too dusky without, to see the sign, and as it had not grown light enough within to see the picture, Mr. Gradgrind and Mr. Bounderby received no offence from these idealities. They followed the girl up some steep corner-stairs without meeting any one, and stopped in the dark while she went on for a candle. They expected every moment to hear Merrylegs give tongue, but the highly trained performing dog had not barked when the girl and the candle appeared together.
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'Father is not in our room, sir,' she said, with a face of great surprise. 'If you wouldn't mind walking in, I'll find him directly.' They walked in; and Sissy, having set two chairs for them, sped away with a quick light step. It was a mean, shabbily furnished room, with a bed in it. The white night-cap, embellished with two peacock's feathers and a pigtail bolt upright, in which Signor Jupe had that very afternoon enlivened the varied performances with his chaste Shaksperean quips and retorts, hung upon a nail; but no other portion of his wardrobe, or other token of himself or his pursuits, was to be seen anywhere. As to Merrylegs, that respectable ancestor of the highly trained animal who went aboard the ark, might have been accidentally shut out of it, for any sign of a dog that was manifest to eye or ear in the Pegasus's Arms.
They heard the doors of rooms above, opening and shutting as Sissy went from one to another in quest of her father; and presently they heard voices expressing surprise. She came bounding down again in a great hurry, opened a battered and mangy old hair trunk, found it empty, and looked round with her hands clasped and her face full of terror.
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The door opened
When the physician turned again toward the bed, to touch with gentle fingers the wrist of his patient, his eyes were wet.
At his touch, her eyes opened to regard him with affectionate trust and gratitude.
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"Well Mary," he said almost bruskly.
The lips fashioned the ghost of a smile; into her eyes came the gleam of that old time challenging spirit. "Well--Doctor George," she answered. Then,--"I--told you--I would not--go--until he came. I must--have my way--still--you see. He will--come--to-day He must come."
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"Yes, Mary," returned the doctor,--his fingers still on the thin wrist, and his eyes studying her face with professional keenness,--"yes, of course."
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"And George--you will not forget--your promise? You will--give me a few minutes--of strength--when he comes--so that I can tell him? I--I--must tell him myself--George. You--will do--this last thing--for me?"
"Yes, Mary, of course," he answered again. "Everything shall be as you wish--as I promised."
"Thank you--George. Thank you--my dear--dear--old friend."
The nurse--who had been standing at the window--stepped quickly to the table that held a few bottles, glasses, and instruments. The doctor looked at her sharply. She nodded a silent answer, as she opened a small, flat, leather case. With his fingers still on his patient's wrist, the physician spoke a word of instruction; and, in a moment, the nurse placed a hypodermic needle in his hand.
As the doctor gave the instrument, again, to his assistant, a quick step sounded in the hall outside.
The patient turned her head. Her eager eyes were fixed upon the door; her voice--stronger, now, with the strength of the powerful stimulant--rang out; "My boy--my boy--he is here! George, nurse, my boy is here!"
The door opened. A young man of perhaps twenty-two years stood on the threshold.
The most casual observer would have seen that he was a son of the dying woman. In the full flush of his young manhood's vigor, there was the same modeling of the mouth, the same nose with finely turned nostrils, the same dark eyes under a breadth of forehead; while the determined chin and the well-squared jaw, together with a rather remarkable fineness of line, told of an inherited mental and spiritual strength and grace as charming as it is, in these days, rare. His dress was that of a gentleman of culture and social position. His very bearing evidenced that he had never been without means to gratify the legitimate tastes of a cultivated and refined intelligence.
At his touch, her eyes opened to regard him with affectionate trust and gratitude.
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"Well Mary," he said almost bruskly.
The lips fashioned the ghost of a smile; into her eyes came the gleam of that old time challenging spirit. "Well--Doctor George," she answered. Then,--"I--told you--I would not--go--until he came. I must--have my way--still--you see. He will--come--to-day He must come."
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"Yes, Mary," returned the doctor,--his fingers still on the thin wrist, and his eyes studying her face with professional keenness,--"yes, of course."
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"And George--you will not forget--your promise? You will--give me a few minutes--of strength--when he comes--so that I can tell him? I--I--must tell him myself--George. You--will do--this last thing--for me?"
"Yes, Mary, of course," he answered again. "Everything shall be as you wish--as I promised."
"Thank you--George. Thank you--my dear--dear--old friend."
The nurse--who had been standing at the window--stepped quickly to the table that held a few bottles, glasses, and instruments. The doctor looked at her sharply. She nodded a silent answer, as she opened a small, flat, leather case. With his fingers still on his patient's wrist, the physician spoke a word of instruction; and, in a moment, the nurse placed a hypodermic needle in his hand.
As the doctor gave the instrument, again, to his assistant, a quick step sounded in the hall outside.
The patient turned her head. Her eager eyes were fixed upon the door; her voice--stronger, now, with the strength of the powerful stimulant--rang out; "My boy--my boy--he is here! George, nurse, my boy is here!"
The door opened. A young man of perhaps twenty-two years stood on the threshold.
The most casual observer would have seen that he was a son of the dying woman. In the full flush of his young manhood's vigor, there was the same modeling of the mouth, the same nose with finely turned nostrils, the same dark eyes under a breadth of forehead; while the determined chin and the well-squared jaw, together with a rather remarkable fineness of line, told of an inherited mental and spiritual strength and grace as charming as it is, in these days, rare. His dress was that of a gentleman of culture and social position. His very bearing evidenced that he had never been without means to gratify the legitimate tastes of a cultivated and refined intelligence.
The doctor remembered
The doctor took the nurse's chart. For a moment, he studied it in silence. He gave it back with a gesture of amazement. "God! nurse," he whispered, "she should be in her grave by now! It's a miracle! But she has always been like that--" he continued, half to himself, looking with troubled admiration toward the bed at the other end of the room--"always."
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He went slowly forward to the chair that the nurse placed for him. Seating himself quietly beside his patient, and bending forward with intense interest, his fine old head bowed, he regarded with more than professional care the wasted face upon the pillow.
The doctor remembered, too well, when those finely moulded features--now, so worn by sorrow, so marked by sickness, so ghastly in the hue of death--were rounded with young-woman health and tinted with rare loveliness. He recalled that day when he saw her a bride. He remembered the sweet, proud dignity of her young wifehood. He saw her, again, when her face shone with the glad triumph and the holy joy of motherhood.
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The old physician turned from his patient, to look with sorrowful eyes about the room that was to witness the end.
Why was such a woman dying like this? Why was a life of such rich mental and spiritual endowments--of such wealth of true culture--coming to its close in such material poverty?
The doctor was one of the few who knew. He was one of the few who understood that, to the woman herself, it was necessary.
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There were those who--without understanding, for the sake of the years that were gone--would have surrounded her with the material comforts to which, in her younger days, she had been accustomed. The doctor knew that there was one--a friend of her childhood, famous, now, in the world of books--who would have come from the ends of the earth to care for her. All that a human being could do for her, in those days of her life's tragedy, that one had done. Then--because he understood--he had gone away. Her own son did not know--could not, in his young manhood, have understood, if he had known--would not understand when he came. Perhaps, some day, he would understand--perhaps.
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He went slowly forward to the chair that the nurse placed for him. Seating himself quietly beside his patient, and bending forward with intense interest, his fine old head bowed, he regarded with more than professional care the wasted face upon the pillow.
The doctor remembered, too well, when those finely moulded features--now, so worn by sorrow, so marked by sickness, so ghastly in the hue of death--were rounded with young-woman health and tinted with rare loveliness. He recalled that day when he saw her a bride. He remembered the sweet, proud dignity of her young wifehood. He saw her, again, when her face shone with the glad triumph and the holy joy of motherhood.
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The old physician turned from his patient, to look with sorrowful eyes about the room that was to witness the end.
Why was such a woman dying like this? Why was a life of such rich mental and spiritual endowments--of such wealth of true culture--coming to its close in such material poverty?
The doctor was one of the few who knew. He was one of the few who understood that, to the woman herself, it was necessary.
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There were those who--without understanding, for the sake of the years that were gone--would have surrounded her with the material comforts to which, in her younger days, she had been accustomed. The doctor knew that there was one--a friend of her childhood, famous, now, in the world of books--who would have come from the ends of the earth to care for her. All that a human being could do for her, in those days of her life's tragedy, that one had done. Then--because he understood--he had gone away. Her own son did not know--could not, in his young manhood, have understood, if he had known--would not understand when he came. Perhaps, some day, he would understand--perhaps.
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