Shoepac Recollections: a Way-Side Glimpse of American Life
Shoepac Recollections: a Way-Side Glimpse of American Life
Willcox, Orlando Bolivar, 1823-1907
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" " How may one do good in the army, pray 2" Monsieur Common Sense went on. " By example the silent magnetism of life, far more powerful, perhaps, than the electric shock of astonishing doctrines. " " I must confess, " said "Walter, " that to astonish would not be disagreeable. " " Those who strive to astonish the world, most gene rally succeed that is, the world is astonished at their folly!" "Walter now grew weary of the conversation. His notions of philanthropy were rather vague, and tended ...more to speculative enjoyment than to practical opera tion. " ISTow, Guilford, I ve flown my kite. Suppose you let yours slip ?" It was near sun-down, we were sitting upon the bank, enjoying the beauties of the landscape. " Do you see that farm-house $" asked Guilford. " What, the miller s ?" "Yes. I would exchange all other earthly success for the ownership of that habitation and these green 208 BHOEPAC RECOLLECTIONS. acres. I would ask no better fortune than just to live out my days here the mill below clicking in my ears to look out upon the green meadows at our feet, with their pyramid haystacks the grand old oaks and syca mores looming around me like guardian giants those waving fields of grain the white sheep dotting the hills sloping down to the brook the cattle yonder more precious to me than Egyptian Apis the barns the poultry the orchard this rivulet a silver thread upon which to string my necklace of jewels grant me these, with my mother to dwell in yon house, and you to live in a cottage of your own upon this very bank" " Large enough for a library ?" I cried.
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