Volume II Part 34 (1/2)
”Do I look ly word, and you deserve it as hed out joyously I looked at hiain How his eyes radiated their splendors, as an eastern starlight in a northern sky! How the blossom-blushes rose upon his cheek! Health, joy, vitality, all the flowers of manhood, the fairest laurels of an unsullied fa ”born to die” I could not but smile; still, it was at his beauty, not his mirth
”Sir, you don't look much like a martyr now”
”Carlomein I should rather be a lory streams from heaven upon the ht there; I know he felt none) ”The saints wear lilies, or they dream so; and dream they not the h them? They are thornless roses there, for passion is made perfect”
”Sir, but I do think that the musician, if duteous, is meet for a starry crown”
”And I could only think, when I saw that picture, that the croas not mine own; but I dreamed within myself that it should not be in vain I desire to deserve the crohich I should wear, but not that star-crown Poetrysorrow in bliss, but it is only music that hides bliss with sorrow And see, Carlomein (for we are in a tale of dreams just now, and both alone), there have been martyrs for all faiths,--for love, for poetry, for patriotision Oh! for what cause, where passion strikes and stirs, have there not been martyrs? But I think lory by the other crown of Fa, and not be believed to have died for music? For that end must the music be rapt and purified,--stolen fro to pain, its exercises sharper than agony I know of none other choice for myself than to press forwards to fulfil the call I have heard since music spoke to me, and was as the voice of God
There is so , while those ere not called, but have only chosen music, defile her mysteries, that the feho are called ain so, Carlo face careful, and I would rather see scorn work upon it than such woe I a to a shop Are there any shops here, Carlomein?”
”Plenty, sir, but they are closed; still, I a you want, no ht which is ar-plue confectioner's whose ere but semi-shuttered Here the Chevalier quite lost hiazines I should scarcely have known hi only the most delicate and rare of the wonders spread about him, and which excited his _navete_ to the utmost His choice cos, theFrench bonbons, all sorts of chocolate, ar elica, golden strips of crystallized orange-peal, not to speak of rout-cakes like fish and frogs and mice and birds' nests Nor did these suffice; off alked to the toy-shop Our toas of world renown for its toys Here it was not so easy to effect an entrance; but it _was_ effected the moment the Chevalier showed his face To this hour I believe they took him in there for some extraordinary little boy,--he certainly behaved like nothing else He bought now beads of all colors, and spangles and shi+ning leaf, and of all things the most exquisite doll, s white robes, and lying in a cradle about a foot long, perfectly finished And next, besides this baby's baby, he snatched at a box of letters, then at a gilt watch, and finally at a ic-lantern We so loaded ourselves with all these baubles that we could scarcely get along; for, with his wonted impetuosity on the least occasions, he would not suffer anything to be sent, lest it should not arrive in tih I reminded him of the dinner-hour at hand, there was to be no rest yet, but I arden or nursery of winter-plants Fortunately, a great friend of Davy's in that line lived very near hireat flower-fancier This was convenient; for had it been twoin his utterh both the florist and I remonstrated with our whole hearts, would carry it himself,--happily not very far I was reminded of dear old Aronach's story about his child-days as I saw hiht his brilliant face through the spires of the foliage Thus we approached Davy's house, and I reminded the Chevalier that ere expected to dine at my mother's, not there In fact, poor Millicent, in her bonnet, looked out anxiously from the door; the Chevalier called to her as she ran to open the gate, ”See, Mrs Davy, see! Here's 'Birnahty,” said Davy, stepping forth ”Our belovedafter us”
”It is very rude, I know; but I ahter is co too Did you think we should leave her behind?”
Millicent was about, in fact, to mount the stairs for the baby; but Seraphael rushed past her
”Pardon! but I don't wish to be seen at present;” and we both bore our burdens into the parlor, and laid them on the table
”Now, Carlomein, the moment dinner is over, o shall come back and lock ourselves in here”
”I should like it of all things, sir, selfish wretch that I am! but I don't think they will”
”Oh, yes, I will make them!”
When at last we descended ready, Carlotta, in her white beaver bonnet, my own present, looked as soft as any snowdrop,--too soft almost to be kissed She held out her ared to carry her; nor would he give her up until we reached my mother's door It was quite the same at dinner also; she would sit next him, would stick her tiny fork into his face, with a morsel of turkey at the end of it, would poke cruer, would put up her lips to kiss him, would say, every moment, ”I like you h with just so much of her mother's modesty as made her turn pink and shy, and put herself cohed at her He was in ecstasies, and every now and then a shade so tender stole upon his air that I knew he could only be adverting to the tenderest of all hu
After dinner, Miss was to retire She was carried upstairs by Margareth, of whom I can only say she loved Carlotta better than she had loved Carl Seraphael then arose, and gracefully, gleefully, despite the solicitations on all hands exhibited, declared he o, that he had toThere was no hed too lance of inexpressible elfishness at oing to crack therand a person waiting”
I know not what blank he left behind him, but I knohat a world he carried with him We had such an afternoon! But we had to be really very busy; I never worked so hard in a s, the necklaces festooned, the glitter ordered with that miraculous rapidity in which he surpassed all others, and that fairy craft of his by which he was enabled to re-create all Arabian, mystical, he placed the cradle in the shade
”You see, Carlomein, I could not have a Christ-child up there at the top, because your brother is rather particular, and ht not choose to approve It will never occur to hier, if we don't tell hi made of straw, and very orthodox”
”It appears to lish customs to so round the tree, and twisting in the tapers red and green
”Now, you go, Carlomein, and fetch theht the candles Begone, Carloers
They came immediately, all rather mystified, but very curious I carried Carlotta, who talked the whole way ho a few e, and her little whispered ”ohs!” and wondering sighs, when the door was opened, and the arch es, seated at the piano, played a measure only meet for child or fairy ears, her ecstasy became quite painful