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THE SHADOWS. |
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" You are much more likely to make them laugh," said the king.
" Are we ? " said the Shadow.
And approaching the king one step, he stood quite still for a moment. The diamond of the king's sceptre shot out a vivid flame of violet light, and the king stared at the Shadow in silence, and his lip quivered. He never told what he saw then ; but he would say:
"Just fancy what it might be if some flitting thoughts were to persist in staying to be looked at."
" It is only," resumed the Shadow, " when our thoughts are not fixed upon any particular object, that our bodies are subject to all the vagaries of elemental influences. Generally, amongst worldly men and frivolous women, we only attach ourselves to some article of furniture or of dress; and they never doubt that we are mere foolish and vague |
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