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CZAR:What should I fear? I have banished all my enemies from Russia. Set the brazier here, by me; it is very cold, and I would sit by it for a time. Go, boy, go; I have much to think about to-night. [(Goes to back of stage, draws aside a curtain. View of Moscow by moonlight.)] The snow has fallen heavily since sunset. How white and cold my city looks under this pale moon! and yet what hot and fiery hearts beat in this icy Russia, for all its frost and snow. Oh, top.671
Every Southern woman must carry some memory in herheart connected with this dried, brittle, but blessed andgrateful leaf. Girls of sixteen have used it, young mothershave fanned their first babies with it, grandmothers sittingon moonlit porches have brought back the memories of alifetime with its slowly waving motion. Even the gravestand most dignified governors and judges have been drivento its help intorrid weather. There is, indeed, no nook or corner in theSouth where at one time or another, it has not been analmost vital necessity.
Another tender memory of mine of the palm-leaf fan isone connected with a girl who came to New York fromSouth Carolina to seek her fortune. She was not pretty butshe had a wonderful figure, as slender as a reed, a littleround kittenish face with grey eyes, a snub nose, a line offreckles across it, beautiful white teeth, a low forehead, aquantity of dark hair, and she possessed to an unusualdegree that intangible thing called charm, and a rare talentfor music. Her voice, a warm soprano, had something in it ofappeal, a thrill of passion and an insistence that went straightto your heart. The first manager she saw in New York wasMr. Daly, who gave her a very small part in a comedy,and one verse of a little song to sing. She made a favourableimpression, for she had individuality and agreat desire to please, combined with a vivid joy of life. Hercriticisms were encouraging and plenty of bouquets, boxesof candy, and admiring notes found their way round to theback of the stage. She was of a gregarious nature, lovingnot only her kind, but light, laughter, music, gaiety andamusement. She soon knew a crowd of artists, journalists,actors and young men about town, was immensely popular,always going about, and her more serious friends weregreatly troubled about her, but she was so radiant with allher new emotions and experiences that she paid no heed toanything but enjoyment.
He was a changed mule; all his black bitter moodshad softened, his faith in human nature was awakened, hislove of mankind was fast being developed. At any rate therewas one woman, slim and tall, with a sweet anxious face,gentian-blue eyes and hands never idle, who worked fromdaylight until dark, for whom Satan could really have died.When his convalescence was over and he began to workagain and was put back into the plough, he kept one weathereye on that magic window, outside of which he had stoodfor so many hot and feverish days, and where he had foundgentle hands, and heard for the first time in his life words ofsympathy and tender love.
And never once did he supply me with fresh fruit. TheMajor confided to me that his only grievance against Johnwas his extraordinarily bad memory when it came toaccounts, his laxity in putting down on paper any moneythat he spent and his never bringing back a receipted bill.But there was never anything in the world like thediplomatic excuse which John always had ready. I gavehim two dollars as a wedding present, but the Major hassince written to tell me of the postponement of themarriage. All the employees in the Major's office had givenhim sums of money and by the time he is again to bemarried a second contribution will be levied. Never have Iseen anyone who understood the art of flattery better thanJohn. Every morning he told me I was much younger andbetter looking than the day before; that his happiness wouldbe complete if I should decide to live in New Orleans; thatthe climate agreed with me, that everybody in the hotelloved me, that the Major's spirits and appetite had improvedsince I came, in fact every conceivable amiable lie possibleof invention he heaped upon me.He supplied me with withered flowers and stale fruit. Hekept me waiting for my clean clothes and gloves; hecheated me out of my change and was hours in doing anysmall errand. Nevertheless, I had a sort of easygoing likingfor him; he was so very transparent, so really without guile.
The baskets were now removed, and Mr. and Mrs.William S. Brooks turned about to receive thecongratulations of the guests. An enormous pink cake,profusely covered with white roses, and a tray bearingwine glasses were passed round with a distinctly headybrand of wine. I only sipped a little, as it seemedcomposed entirely of aromatic alcohol. We then helpedourselves to a small portion of cake, congratulated thebride and groom, and drove home in the beautiful springmoonlight. I was vastly and tenderly amused by theevening's festivities, which seemed to have transported meback again to the scenes of my childhood.
Man is believed to be the last and most perfect workmanship of the Creator upon earth. His organization is most complex and elaborate, and, to the eye of causality, each one of all his faculties has an amazing significance. As a reaper of pleasures, all worlds are his harvest-fields. As a sufferer of pain, every spot in all the worlds may be Guatemozin's bed of fire. His faculties have a range and scope, above, around, below, through what we call immensity; a vision backward and a duration onward, through what we call eternity. He has moral and religious endowments, so that the door of the moral and religious universe, wherein dwell God and all good spirits, stands forever open to welcome his entrance. His spirit can learn its [20] origin in the remote past, and trace its destiny in the remoter future, can converse with its fellow-creatures and hold communion with its Creator, and when it dies here upon earth can rise to immortality in the spirit-land.
But can we not find relief from these frightful realities in a cheering anticipation that the curtain is soon to be dropped, and this world-tragedy of ours to be brought to a speedy close? Self-commissioned prophets have been constantly rising up, who have predicted the dissolution of the earth, as though they themselves had made its machinery, and wound it up, and therefore knew how long before it would run down. And this has been done for eighteen hundred years with a frequency and a dogmatism, which perpetual disappointment is unable to check. Even some sober-minded people are haunted with the same delusion. We are so intensely egotistic that we measure other lives, and even the Divine Life, by the hour-glass standard of our own, and hence make a calendar of months and years for the Eternal, as though the Everlasting could grow old. But what do all the wisest and the most religious men tell us, respecting the chronology and the longevity of our [23] globe? The geologist traces back its natural history, age beyond age, and epoch behind epoch, into such far-off periods of the past eternity, that the imagination struggles in vain to conceive the remoteness of its origin. And it is not until science couches the vision, that we see, in these limitless expanses of duration, a scope of time adequate to the grand operations of nature;--time for the diffused material of chaos to gravitate itself into stars; time for frost and flood, for lightning and storm, to break down and triturate the rocks, and fill up the valleys of Niles and Amazons and Mississippis with their rich mould; time for the auriferous mountains to be disintegrated and to cast their glittering treasures along the river-beds and over the vast alluvial deposits of California and Australia, and time for the forests to grow, out of which the coal-fields were made. And when the geologist has brought us over his vast tracts of duration to the present hour, what does the astronomer tell us respecting the durability of that mechanism of the stellar universe of which we are a part? He says that in addition to the revolution of moons around the primary planets, and in addition to the revolution of the primaries around the central sun, our whole solar system itself is sweeping through an immense orbit [24] around some other centre, along a circumference so inconceivably vast that, during the six thousand years since the creation of Adam, the solar group has passed through but about one degree of the three hundred and sixty degrees that make but a single one of its mighty circuits. That is, it has performed, since the creation of the human race, but about one three hundred and sixtieth part of a single revolution. When did ever even an earthly mechanic allow a wheel which he had constructed, to make but one three hundred and sixtieth part of its first revolution, and then stop it forever! The perfect motions of the heavenly bodies allow no friction, no wear and tear, productive of decay. Libration balances libration, and all eccentric movements pass through a cycle and return to their starting-place. It was supposed by Sir Isaac Newton that the moon was straying from its path by slow degrees whose accumulations of error, after long ages, would break up the equipoises of our system, and hence that it would require an outstretching of the Almighty arm to set it back in its place,--as we mortals rectify the errors of a house-clock by moving its hands. But the French astronomer, La Grange, on revising the computations of Newton, found,--what will always be found, when man dares to question [25] the workmanship of his Maker,--that the error was not in the celestial machinery, but in the earthly observer. The moon is faithful to a perfect law of motion, and however it may seem to us for a time to be wandering from its orbit, just as, at the end of each lunation, it might seem to an insect to be waning into final extinction, yet it is as sure to come back to its place in time, as to return to its fulness of orb,--while the error and the insect alike pass away forever.
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