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“See,” he went on, both asking the questions and supplying the answers. “Isn’t it a beauty? Yes; splendid! Did you ever see such a binding? Doesn’t the book open easily? Yes; it stays open anywhere. But does it shut equally well? Yes; for the binding and the leaves are flush, all in a straight line, and no gaps or openings anywhere. And look at its back, after seven hundred years.
“Yes. Do you want me to explain what that is?” “Of course not,” I replied in the tone of an injured man. But my uncle persevered, and told me, against my will, of many things I cared nothing about.
Ah! women and young girls, how incomprehensible are your feminine hearts! When you are not the timidest, you are the bravest of creatures. Reason has nothing to do with your actions.
“What, you monument of ignorance!
“Where to?” I pointed with my finger downward. “Down into the cellar?” cried the old servant. “No,” I said. “Lower down than that.”
“Never shall I be able to do it,” I said.
the first essential for laboring people is that they should be educated.
I only hope, thought I, that this so-called extinct volcano won’t take a fancy in his old age to begin his sports again!
“Watten!” replied the huntsman. No doubt under the inspiration of intense pain everybody becomes endowed with the gift of understanding diverse tongues. I did not know a word of Danish, yet instinctively I understood the word he had uttered.
At first I protest against being so widely mistaken as to have taken an island for a marine monster.
Suppose we had touched with our prow (the prow of a raft!)
If at every instant we may perish, so at every instant we may be saved.
