The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-05-07
Pathos OF Dickens. .

Gwen when golden hair lay in halo
on pillow, around the worn face OF
little bov he said with radiant smile:
Dear papa and mamma. / am sorry to
leave you both and to leave my pretty
sister, but am called and | must go. s
Thus the rustling of an angels wings got
| blended with the other echoes and had
in them the breath of heaven."-Tale of
Two Cities, book 2, chapter 81.
"There is no time there, and no trouble
there. The spare hand does not tremble;
nothing worse than a sweet, bright con-
stancy is in her face. She goes next be-
fore him-is gone"-I bid, book 5, chap
ter 15.
'The dying boy made answer, I soon
shall be there He Spoke of beautiful
| gardens stretched out before him, that
children, all with light upon their faces;
then whispered it was Eden and so died"
| Nicholas Nickleby, chapter 5S.
"It's turned very dark, sir. Is there any
light a-coming? The cart is shaken all to
pieces, and the rugged road is very near
| its end. Pm a-gropin'-a-gropin'-let me
catch hold of your hand. Hallowed be
thy name"
"Dead my lords and gentleman. Dead!
compassion in your hearts. And dying
thus around US every dayp-Bleak House,
chapter AZ.
"He slowly laid his face down upon her
bosom, drew his arm close around her
neck, and with one parting sob began the
world. Not this world. Oh, not this !!
! The world that sets this right."-I bid,
chapter 65.
"'If this is sleep, sit by me when
sleep; turn me to YOU, for your face is go
| ing far off and want it to be near" And
she died like child that had gone to
Sleep" David Copperfeld, chapter 8.
''Time and the world were slipping
| from beneath him. he's going ont with
the tide. X And it being low water,
he went out with the tide."-I bid, chap-
ter 80.
zone new mound was there, which
had not been there last night. Time, bur-
had marked his track by throwing up an
other heap of earth. Martin Chuzzle-
wit. chapter 16
"She was dead. No sleep so beautiful
| and calm, so free from trace of pain, SO
fair to look upon. She seemed a creature
fresh from the hands of God and waiting
for the breath of life, not one who had
lived and suffered death. She was past
all help or need of it. We will not wake
her." curiosity Shop, chapter II.
'SThe hand stopped in the midst of
them the light that had always been
feeble and dim behind the weak trans
parency went out.'-H Hard Times: chapter
8.
"For moment the closed eyelids trem-
bled and the faintest shadow Of a smile
was seen. Thus, clinging to the slight
spar within her arms, the mother drifted
out upon the dark and unknown sea that
rolls around all the world."-Dombey and
Son, vol. l, chapter l.
"It's very near the sea; [ hear the
waves! The light about the head is shin
ing upon me as go The old, old fashion
that came in with our first garments, and
will last unchanged until our race has run
its course and the wide ornament is roll
ed up like scroll. Oh! thank God for
that old fashion yet tofimmortality! And
look upon us, angels of your children,
when the swift river bears us to the ocean,
Il bid, chapter II.
"In this round world of many circles
within circles do we make weary jour-
ney from the high grade to the low, to
find at last that they lie close together,
that the two extremes touch, and that our
journeys end is but our starting-plaee."-
| bid, chapter "a.
"a cricket sings upon the hearth a
broken child's toy lies upon the ground
and nothing else mains."-Cricket on
the Hearth, chapter 2.