Excerpt: ...and make biscuit for him, and then, perhaps, he'll go out and talk with the hired man.' 'Polly, ' said I, 'you're getting to be very foolish.' 'Well, it comes so easy, ' said she. 'It's my one talent'" XX At the Theatre of the Woods Next day Trove went home. He took with him many a souvenir of his first term, including a scarf that Polly had knit for him, and the curious things he took from the Frenchman Leblanc, and which he retained partly because they were curious and partly because Mrs. Leblanc had been ...
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Excerpt: ...and make biscuit for him, and then, perhaps, he'll go out and talk with the hired man.' 'Polly, ' said I, 'you're getting to be very foolish.' 'Well, it comes so easy, ' said she. 'It's my one talent'" XX At the Theatre of the Woods Next day Trove went home. He took with him many a souvenir of his first term, including a scarf that Polly had knit for him, and the curious things he took from the Frenchman Leblanc, and which he retained partly because they were curious and partly because Mrs. Leblanc had been anxious to get rid of them. He soon rejoined his class at Hillsborough, having kept abreast of it in history and mathematics by work after school and over the week's end. He was content to fall behind in the classics, for they were easy, and in them his arrears gave him no terror. Walking for exercise, he laid the plan of his tale and had written some bits of verse. Of an evening he went often to the Sign of the Dial, and there read his lines and got friendly but severe criticism. He came into the shop one evening, his "Horace" under his arm. "'Maecenas, atavis, edite regibus'" Trove chanted, pausing to recall the lines. The tinker turned quickly. "'O et presidium et duice decus meum, '" he quoted, never stopping until he had finished She ode. "Is there anything you do not know?" Trove inquired. "Much," said the tinker, "including the depth o' me own folly. A man that displays knowledge hath need o' more." Indeed, Trove rarely came for a talk with Darrel when he failed to discover something new in him-a further reach of thought and sympathy or some unsuspected treasure of knowledge. The tinker loved a laugh and would often search his memory for some phrase of bard or philosopher apt enough to provoke it. Of his great store of knowledge he made no vainer use. Trove had been overworking; and about the middle of June they went for a week in the woods together. They walked to Allen's the first day, and, after a brief visit there, went off in the deep...
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1903 Bacheller, Irving DARREL OF THE BLESSED ISLES Special Limited Edition NY: Grosset & Dunlap, c1903 411pp ads illus Arthur Keller 8vo dec green cloth Near fine with only minor signs of rubbing on edges.
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