Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851Various
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851
Various
American literature -- Periodicals; Civilization -- Periodicals; Culture -- Periodicals
However, he was up early, and with an unwonted color in his cheeks,
which his sister ascribed to the country air. After breakfast, he took
his way toward Hazeldean, mounted upon a tolerable horse, which he hired
of a neighboring farmer who occasionally hunted. Before noon, the garden
and terrace of the Casino came in sight. He reined in his horse, and by
the little fountain at which Leonard had been wont to eat his radishes
and con his book, he saw Riccabocca seated under the shade of the red
umbrella. And by the Italian's side stood a form that a Greek of old
might have deemed the Naiad of the Fount; for in its youthful beauty
there was something so full of poetry--something at once so sweet and so
stately--that it spoke to the imagination while it charmed the sense.
Randal dismounted, tied his horse to the gate, and, walking down a
trellised alley, came suddenly to the spot. His dark shadow fell over
the clear mirror of the fountain just as Riccabocca had said, "All here
is so secure from evil!--the waves of the fountain are never troubled
like those of the river!" and Violante had answered in her soft native
tongue, and lifting her dark, spiritual eyes--"But the fountain would be
but a lifeless pool, oh, my father, if the spray did not mount toward
the skies!"
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
YOU'RE ANOTHER!
"You're another!" It's a vulgar retort, but a common one--though not
much in use among well-bred people. But there are many ways of saying
it--various modes of conveying the same meaning. "_Et tu Brute_,"
observed some one, on reading a debate in the House of Commons; "I often
see these words quoted; what can they mean?" "I should say," was the
answer, "they mean, 'Oh, you brute!'" "Well, I rather think they mean
'_You're another!_'" Let the classicist determine which interpretation
is the right one.
"You're another!" may be conveyed in a mild tone and manner. For
instance:--"The right honorable gentleman seems not to apprehend the
points of the argument: he says he does not understand how so and so is
so and so. We can only supply him with arguments level to the meanest
capacity, not with brains. Nature having been sparing in her endowments
to the honorable gentleman, must be matter of deep regret to those who
are under the painful necessity of listening to the oft-times-refuted
assertions and so-called arguments which he has advanced upon this very
question."
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