THE LOVES OF PELLEAS AND ETARRE1907 |
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Page 5 - Easter togather and, if it was to be so, then to run away to Easter service would be a fitting memory, a little delicious human thing to recall among austerer glories. Out of its box in a twinkling came my violet bonnet and I hardly looked in a mirror as I put it on. I fastened my cloak wrong from top to bottom and seized two right-hand gloves and thrust them in my muff. Then we opened the door and listened. There was not a sound in the house. We ventured into the passage and down the stairs and...
Page 213 - Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us, To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
Page 213 - And thou, child, shalt be called the Prophet of the Highest : for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways...
Page 158 - Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard, Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices: A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon. Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out.
Page 215 - ... renounce the devil and all his works, and constantly believe God's holy word, and obediently keep his commandments. I demand therefore, DOST thou, in the name of this child, renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world, with all covetous desires of the same, and the carnal desires of the flesh, so that thou wilt not follow nor be led by them ? Answ.
Page 324 - Although thy breath be rude. Heigh, ho ! sing, heigh, ho ! unto the green holly : Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly Then, heigh, ho, the holly ! This life is most jolly.
Page 15 - Pelleas brushed this aside as a mere straw in the wind. "Think of Nichola," he portentously amended. In all our flurry we could not help laughing at the frenzy of our old servant when we told her. Old Nichola was born upon the other side of every argument. In her we can see the history of all the world working out in a miniature of wrinkles. For Nichola would have cut off her gray hair with Sparta, hurled herself fanatically abroad on St. Bartholomew's day, borne a pike before the Bastile, broken...
Page 25 - The Lord bless you and keep you : the Lord make his face to shine upon you ; the Lord lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace, now and for evermore.
Page 145 - My father had many goats in Capri," she said again, "and one summer I went with him to buy more. And at noon my father left me in the valley while he went to look at some hill flocks. As for me, I sat by a tree to eat my lunch of goat's cheese and bread, and a young shepherd of those parts came and brought me berries and a little pat of sweet butter and we shared them. I did not see him again, but now I have made you a little pat of sweet butter," said Nichola, nodding. We were all silent, and Pelleas...
Page 194 - ... in a kind of absent-minded pleasure. " It sounds quite like throwing down a handful of spoons," submitted Peleas, wrinkling the corners of his eyes. We saw Katinka first when we were all about the table — Cousin Diantha, Miss Waitie, who was her spinster sister, Peleas and I, and Andy, who works for his board. I shall not soon forget the picture that she made as she passed the corn cakes — Katinka, little maid-of-allwork, in. a patched black frock and a red rubber ring and a red rubber bracelet....