Wednesday, December 5, 2012

It was a painful parting

It was a painful parting,cheap north face down jackets. Misconception on one side, and deep suffering with pride, upon the other. No lighting of the eyes, no pressure of the hand, no warm good-bye, to keep his heart alive while she was away.
He stood, after the cars had left, deeply pondering the strange affair, until the crowd jostled him, and brought him back to the external world, with its toil, its sounds of mirth, and its varied forms of life.
What a break in his usual peaceful life; what a void he found in his soul when he entered the silent home. There was no lingering atmosphere of love about the rooms; everything was put away out of sight,North Face Jackets. The order was painful, and he left to seek companionship if not sympathy.
Chapter 10
"What is it like,fake foamposites for sale, Dawn?"
"Like a great Soul that has absorbed a million lives into its own, and cannot rest, it is so full of joy and sadness," and she fixed her gaze more intently on the foam-crested waves.
It was the first time she had seen the ocean, and her father's keen enjoyment watching her enraptured, wondering gaze, afforded Miss Vernon another source of pleasure, aside from the wide expanse of beauty, which stretched from shore to horizon.
The three, according to Mr. Wyman's promise, had come to enjoy the pleasures and beauties of the seaside for a few weeks, as well as to see the different phases of human character which were daily thronging there.
It was intensely interesting to Miss Vernon to watch the child's eager interest in this glorious display of nature, and her strange insight into the character of the people with whom they were in daily contact.
There was one faint, gentle girl, about twenty years of age, who walked every evening alone, and whom Miss Vernon watched with great interest.
"I like her, too," said Dawn, coming close to her teacher one evening, as she walked up and down on the beach.
"Who? and how do you know I like her."
"Why, the lady there, walking in front of us. I feel you like her."
"I am glad you do, Dawn. And now tell me why you love her,fake ugg delaine boots."
"I love her because she is white."
"You mean that she is pure. I think she is."
"Yes. I mean that and something else."
"What?"
"In one of my lessons, you told me, that some objects were white, because they absorbed none of the rays, but reflected all."
"You must explain your singular application-or in plain words, tell me how she reflects all, and takes none."
"Why, because she don't take the life from people, but gives to them."
"You know just what I mean-she throws it back to themselves purified by her light." And the child's face was not her own, another's shone through it.
"Very good, Dawn, I hope we shall sometime know this pure young lady, and receive a brightness from her," said Miss Vernon, talking more to herself than the strange child who was dancing at that moment in time to the waves.
"According to your scientific symbol, I suppose we shall see some black people here before we go," she said laughingly to the child.
"Yes, there are plenty of those everywhere. They take all the light, and give none out. But see, Miss Vernon, the lady is sitting on a rock and weeping, may I go to her?"

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