. Seen from the saddle . e any such phrase—it says— ** Oh, well—the Declaration of Independ-ence, then, interrupted Dollys rider. ** Imalways getting them mixed. There is neither such a phrase nor suchan idea in the Declaration, said D., turninginto Albany Avenue. Then, exclaimed Dollys rider, ecstati-cally, I invented it. I feel like the Bour-geois Gentilhomme when he found he wastalking prose. But D. smiled compassionately. Youare simply quoting a phrase most governorsof most States and most orators in the re-public use and ascribe to the were misinformed, that was all., The
. Seen from the saddle . e any such phrase—it says— ** Oh, well—the Declaration of Independ-ence, then, interrupted Dollys rider. ** Imalways getting them mixed. There is neither such a phrase nor suchan idea in the Declaration, said D., turninginto Albany Avenue. Then, exclaimed Dollys rider, ecstati-cally, I invented it. I feel like the Bour-geois Gentilhomme when he found he wastalking prose. But D. smiled compassionately. Youare simply quoting a phrase most governorsof most States and most orators in the re-public use and ascribe to the were misinformed, that was all., Then we are not all free and equal ?said Dollys poor rider, disillusioned; thatis, not by the Constitution .^ Oh, you are by a higher law, perhaps,he said, lightly. Mr. Seward used thatphrase with good effect in early war times,when we wanted to make the proclamationof freedom. But its too hot to use it too hot to do anything but go home. And so they sought that refuge which hasits uses when every other IV >^ ALF-PAST eight oclock ; [^ thermometer 84° in the thought they would getto the open country by cross-ing Farmington Avenue at alittle new street bordered by little greenbushes and shrubs, but the little bushes castno shadows, and the horseback riders passedthrough a fiery furnace of unobstructed sun-shine. Dollys eyes followed the gnats asthey swam in the air, and her head swam with ,them. How much heat poured from a pre-cipitate height would dissolve a solid into aliquid.^ How much heat burning into thatliquid would change it into a ray of light?It was a strange sensation this—melting awaybefore ones own eyes, disappearing in a floodof self. She watched the process in an imper-sonal, disinterested sort of way—the way Ha-drian watched his souls flight in the prettypoem : ** Animula, vagula, blandula,Hospes comesque corporis, 41 and was taking a kind of dreamy pleasurein feeling the cumbrous flesh glow lighter,freer, more ethereal
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