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ISBN: 9780217824439

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1877. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... V. THE PHANTOM HOUSE. BETWEEN two and three years passed before I saw Cephas again. Meantime, I had found my level in an obscure pastorate; but since it was within a convenient distance of what I considered the center of .civilization, I put up with it contentedly as possible. Not yet did the Polar Star guide my life. I was a home missionary through force of circumstances, not by choice. The poverty, however, of my friend and myself was not much increased by spending money on the post office. We had confidence enough in each other not to suppose love extinct if it did not appear by every mail. Sometimes the silence was unbroken for months. We were so unlike that I needed other friends, and he also, to meet certain mental wants. Yet on the whole we were more and more wedded to each other. We understood one another perfectly, and knew just how to get on together. The months therefore led us to rest more and more in our friendship: although I did not understand how he could put up with me, I being utterly unable to countenance myself in certain selfish courses; but he evidently thought me capable of a higher consecration, and little by little I was led by him. So our boyhood acquaintance was ripening year by year into a rare kind of friendship, the mutual love of men, who with their own domestic surroundings and with their circle of cares, yet find in each other a certain relation in the highest degree satisfying and helpful, as if for some of the most important ends of life the two were one. But it is impossible that there should be such an one, unless there be first two. Two individuals intensely developed, thoroughly unlike in many particulars and carefully respecting each other''s peculiarities, must exist before there can be the highest kind of friendship, thou... Edward Payson Tenney, Books, History, Coronation; A Story Of Forest And Sea Books>History <

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. THE NORTH STAR. lonely house of the Tragabigzanda parson I was my tying up place for some weeks. During this time I was so occupied here and there, that I did not fairly unearth another of the peculiar heresies of my friend till one evening, in this wise. The west wind had been bringing heat from the interior down to the coast all day, and I had hardly ventured out of the house. But when, toward night, I looked out upon the cool shadow of the old oak upon the green grass, I took Eschylus from the study table, and sought the shelter of those long arms, which were stretching out on every side of the great standard like the beams or rafters of a vast hall. Reading aloud, I had come upon the eighty-fifth line of Prometheus- "the strange portent of the talking oaks," when I heard a voice from the tree tops- "You will get cold from the dewfall, if you don't look out." And then a moment after-" Look out! " and down came a rubber blanket, with -" Spread that underyou." And then, in a moment more, I saw Cephas coming down a rope by hand from his lofty study in the top of the tree. " You would go," said he, as he touched ground, " a thousand miles to see a man spin himself down a thousand feet of precipice, uncoiling the rope from his own bowels. Look then at a spider lowering himself from the limb of a tree to the earth.". Lying upon our backs we punched each other's ribs with every new joke, till one by one the stars over our heads were all in place. Then my companion turned to me soberly, asking,'- " Do you see the North Star? " " Yes." " Did I ever tell you what it means to me? " " No." "Let me tell you, then. You remember I took a short trip to California after leaving the seminary. I landed on a winter evening, and made at once for. Books History~~General Coronation~~Edward-Payson-Tenney General Books LLC<