.................................................. 98 CHAPTER XV: A GOSSIP ON ROMANCE ...................................................................... ...er him to eat of it himself. The same spirit inspired Miss Bird’s American missionaries, who had come thousands of miles to change the faith of Japan,... ...heir air, gigantically human, as of a creature half alive, put a spirit of romance into the tamest landscape. When the Scotch child sees them first he... ...nd body, more active, fonder of eat- ing, endowed with a lesser and a less romantic sense of life and of the future, and more immersed in present circ... ...t merit of the unworthy takes.” In flowers his taste was old-fashioned and catholic; affect- ing sunflowers and dahlias, wallflowers and roses and hol... ...e never con- demned anybody else. I have no doubt that he held all Ro- man Catholics, Atheists, and Mahometans as considerably out of it; I don’t beli... ...e, and Scotch believers perpetual crusaders the one against the other, and missionaries the one to the other. Perhaps Robert’s origi- nally tender hea...

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