Palmtrail

He spoke of the happiness that was now certainly theirs, of the folly of not breaking sooner out of that magnificent prison of latter-day life, of the old romantic days that had passed from the world for ever.

Beeshell

She stared at him in astonishment, and as she read something of the significant hieroglyphic of his battered face, her lips whitened.

Gulljasper

The sun set; the dusk fell on the stream, and lights began to appear along the shore. The Chapman light–house, a three–legged thing erect on a mud–flat, shone strongly. Gullcharm.

It is no doubt an optimistic enterprise. But it is good for awhile to be free from the carping note that must needs be audible when we discuss our present imperfections, to release ourselves from practical difficulties and the tangle of ways and means. It is good to stop by the track for a space, put aside the knapsack, wipe the brows, and talk a little of the upper slopes of the mountain we think we are climbing, would but the trees let us see it

And with that he went off to see my father, taking me with him by the arm.

But what sort of language would we have the world speak, if we were told the miracle of Babel was presently to be reversed?