Over a Wood Fire: From Reveries of a BachelorR.F. Fenno, 1907 - Всего страниц: 42 |
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Стр. 22 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face, You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Стр. 1 - This very marriage, which a brilliant working imagination has invested time and again with brightness and delight, can serve no longer as a mine for teeming fancy. All, alas! will be gone — reduced to the dull standard of the actual. No more room for intrepid forays of imagination — no more gorgeous realm-making. All will be over! Why not, I thought, go on dreaming? Can any wife be prettier than an after-dinner fancy, idle and yet vivid, can paint for you? Can any children make less noise than...
Стр. 3 - Unfortunately, we have no Lord Chancellor to make this commutation of our misery. Shall a man then scour the country on a mule's back, like Honest Gil Bias, of Santillane; or shall he make application to some such intervening providence as Madame St. Marc, who, as I see by the "Presse," manages these matters to one's hand, for some five per cent, on the fortunes of the parties? I have trouted when the brook was so low and the sky so hot that I might as well have thrown my fly upon the turnpike; and...
Стр. 5 - She will annoy you by looking over the stock-list at breakfast time ; and mention quite carelessly to your clients, that she is interested in such, or such a speculation. She will be provokingly silent when you hint to a tradesman, that you have not the money by you, for his small bill ; — in short, she will tear the life out of you, making you pay in righteous retribution of annoyance, grief, vexation, shame, and sickness of heart, for the superlative folly of
Стр. 9 - You never fancied, when you saw her buried in a three volume novel, that it was anything more than a girlish vagary; and when she quoted Latin, you thought innocently that she had a capital memory for her samplers. But, to be bored eternally about divine Dante and funny Goldoni, is too bad. Your copy of Tasso, a treasure print of 1680, is all bethumbed, and dogs-eared, and spotted with baby gruel.
Стр. 6 - Ten to one, she will stickle about taste — " Sir Visto's" — and want to make this so pretty, and that so charming, if she only had the means ; and is sure Paul (a kiss) can't deny his little Peggy such a trifling sum, and all for the common benefit. Then she, for one, means that her children shan't go a-begging for clothes, — and another pull at the purse. Trust a poor mother to dress her children in finery ! Perhaps she is ugly ; — not noticeable at first ; but growing on her, and (what...
Стр. 2 - Can any wife be prettier than an after-dinner fancy, idle and yet vivid, can paint for you ? Can any children make less noise than the little, rosy-cheeked ones, who have no existence except in the omnium gatherum of your own brain ? Can any housewife be more unexceptionable than she who goes sweeping daintily the cobwebs that gather in your dreams ? Can any domestic larder be better stocked than the private larder of your head dozing on a cushioned chair-back at Delmonico's ? Can any family purse...
Стр. 31 - God will help you ! " She presses harder your hand: — "Adieu!" A long breath — another; — you are alone again. No tears now ; poor man ! You cannot find them ! Again home early. There is a smell of varnish in your house. A coffin is there; they have clothed the body in decent grave-clothes, and the undertaker is screwing down the lid, slipping round on tiptoe. Does he fear to...