which I left in one of the of the library's mantelpiece=>which I left in
one of the library's mantelpiece
qui s'est allongee malgre moi. Ton frere, James William.=>qui s'est
allongee malgre moi. Ton frere, James William.
At about 5 the fearful reveille calls us>=At about 5 the fearful
reveille calls us
quand meme>=quand meme
my own that it should beeome so=>my own that it should become so
I dont care much what it may be=>I don't care much what it may be
* * * * *
FOOTNOTES:
[1] _A Small Boy and Others._ New York, 1913.
[2] _A Small Boy and Others_, 1913.
[3] A Small Boy and Others, 1913.
[4] Expressive drawing alas irreproducible.
[5] A drawing of figures in evening lamplight.
[6] Literary Remains of Henry James, Boston, 1885. The portrait
accompanying the volume gave us, alas, but the scantest satisfaction.
[7] _Past and Present_, 1843.
[8] "But, Sir, we have yet one more scene to visit together, connected
with all we have previously witnessed: a home scene, Sir Benjamin; and
we must now ascend a mountain of pity high enough to command the dewy
extense of three kingdoms. From thence we have to look down from every
point of our warm hearts with a sight as multifold as the cherubic eyes.
We are to see with equal penetration through the diverse thickness of
castles, mansions, and cottages, through London and through hamlet, at
young wives and at aged mothers, little children, brothers and
sisters--all groups and ties that are; and at affianced maidens, ties
that were to be. There are rents and tears to-day in the general life:
the bulletin of the dead has come, and the groups of sorrow are
constituted. Splendid Paris bends as a Niobe or as a Rachel while the
corse of her much-enduring Hero is borne to the marble Invalides; other
corses go earthward with a shorter procession, helped away by the spades
of ruder but more instant sculptors; the rucked sod of the Alma is their
urn and monument in one; yet every warrior among them is also buried
to-day with swelling greatness of obsequies, if we could see them, in
the everlasting ruby vaults of some human heart. You are touched, Sir
Benjamin, and are justly religious on this summit. Struck down for a
moment from worldliness, we both discourse without an afterthought on
the immortal state; we hope that the brave are already welcomed in the
land of peace; that our laurels they could not stop to take, and our
earned promotion they seem to have missed are clad upon them now by the
God of battles in front of the shining armies of the just. We hope also
that if their voices could now speak to the mourners, the oil of their
sure gladness would heal our faithless sorrow. It is a true strain no
doubt, and yet but of momentary power." War, Cholera, and the Ministry
of Health. An Appeal to Sir Benjamin Hall and the British People.
London, 1854.
[9] An eminent Unitarian pastor.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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