This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 Excerpt: ... Our calls are all returned. In these queer little houses I have seen very pretty little ladies and very pretty children, baskets of fruit and flowers everywhere. Yes, God is in every place, --particularly here where the silence is unbroken by the sound of literary or political wrangling. The talk is all of the vintage ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 Excerpt: ... Our calls are all returned. In these queer little houses I have seen very pretty little ladies and very pretty children, baskets of fruit and flowers everywhere. Yes, God is in every place, --particularly here where the silence is unbroken by the sound of literary or political wrangling. The talk is all of the vintage and the wheat-crop and of hens who lay continually. It is not exactly Spain, --of which by the way you sent me a charming souvenir, in the dove-like strains which you had translated so feelingly,1--but it is peace 1 She alludes to an impassioned and mystical poem, by the poetess Carolina Coronada, entitled " El Amor de los Amores," which M. Hippolyte Valmore had translated. and freedom, with no ringing at the door, no pianos, and no Greek caps in the attic. Here all goes smoothly, --at least on the surface of the meadows where I stray. Here is melancholy, not of the luxurious kind, and not too poignant neither. Poets do not build nests here, and turtle-doves eat like ogres." But during this second autumn in the country Undine's condition became alarming; and the mother's eye could not be deceived, although she hoped against hope. "For the rest, my dear son, I must needs enter into some sad particulars, and confess that my mother's heart is perpetually wrung, --that twenty times a day my sight is dimmed by terror about her. Her countenance is so changeful; she has so.strange an appetite and such a horror of walking! She is so shy even in her confidences! It is as if her heart were the home of thousands of birds, who do not sing in concert, but fear and shun one another. She is always gentle, but so easily agitated." These apprehensions were only too soon justified, and, before many months had elapsed, this mingling of joy ...
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