. Stories for the household . d fortune. Day broke through the light clouds ;country people went across the heath to church : the black-gownedwomen with their white head-dresses looked like ghosts that had steppedforth from the church pictures. All around lay a wide dead plain,covered with faded brown heath, and black charred spaces between thewhite sand hills. The women carried hymn books, and walked into thechurch. Oh, pray, pray for those who are wandering to find gravesbeyond the foaming billows. FIFTEENTH EVENING. I KNOW a Pulcinella, * the Moon told me. The public applaudvociferously dir
. Stories for the household . d fortune. Day broke through the light clouds ;country people went across the heath to church : the black-gownedwomen with their white head-dresses looked like ghosts that had steppedforth from the church pictures. All around lay a wide dead plain,covered with faded brown heath, and black charred spaces between thewhite sand hills. The women carried hymn books, and walked into thechurch. Oh, pray, pray for those who are wandering to find gravesbeyond the foaming billows. FIFTEENTH EVENING. I KNOW a Pulcinella, * the Moon told me. The public applaudvociferously directly they see him. Every one of his movements iscomic, and is sure to throw the house into convulsions of laughter; andyet there is no art in it all—it is complete nature. When he was yeta little boy, playing about with other boys, he was already had intended him for it, and had provided him with a hump on • The comic or grotesque character of the Italian ballet, from which the English Punchtakes his PULCINELLA OJf COLUMBINES GEAVE. his back, and another on his breast; but his inward man, his mind, onthe contrary, was richly furnished. JSTo one could surpass him in depthof feeling or in readiness of intellect. The theatre was his ideal he had possessed a slender well-shaped figure, he might have been thefirst tragedian on any stage: the heroic, the great, filled his soul; andyet he had to become a Pulcinella. His very sorrow and melancholydid but increase the comic dryness of his sharply-cut features, andincreased the laughter of the audience, who showered plaudits on theirfavourite. The lovely Columbine was indeed kind and cordial to him;but she preferred to marry the Harlequin. It would have been tooridiculous if beauty and ugliness had in reality paired together. When Pulcinella was in very bad spirits, she was the only one whocould force a hearty burst of laughter, or even a smile from him: first 414 Stories for the Household. she would b
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