Excerpt from The White Hound Hrs face was round like an owl's, round without fleshi ness, suggesting proportion rather than bulk. His prominent eyes were large, and though suffused at times by a whimsical expression, wore habitually a sad one, which is a rare quality in aged eyes, for it would seem that Life, as she sweeps by, absorbs our emotions, leaving us the hulks we become before death: yet, for some caprice, she permits a few to retain the young heart, to grow no older at any rate in spirit with the passing ...
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Excerpt from The White Hound Hrs face was round like an owl's, round without fleshi ness, suggesting proportion rather than bulk. His prominent eyes were large, and though suffused at times by a whimsical expression, wore habitually a sad one, which is a rare quality in aged eyes, for it would seem that Life, as she sweeps by, absorbs our emotions, leaving us the hulks we become before death: yet, for some caprice, she permits a few to retain the young heart, to grow no older at any rate in spirit with the passing years, and throws in, as it were, this sadness with an ironic gesture. He who will laugh to the end must weep too: is not that it? The mystery of sorrow, how always it accomplishes the reverse of its promise! No one who has ever been sad to tears can fail to know happiness - the action of immortality surely upon our mortal flesh, the spiritual resistance to evil that is ham pered by the impotence of the body. Sorrowing is never a weakness. A person who cannot grieve deeply is a very limited person indeed, and quite hateful at last. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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