6.  Right graciously he smiled on us, as rolled from wing to wing,
     Down all the line, a deafening shout, “God save our Lord the King!”

7.  When he arose in the morning, he thought only of her, and wondered if she were yet awake.

8.  He had lost the quiet of his thoughts, and his agitated soul reflected only broken and distorted images of things.

9.  So, lest I be inclined
      To render ill for ill,
     Henceforth in me instill,
      O God, a sweet good will.

10.  The sun appears to beat in vain at the casements.

11.  Margaret had come into the workshop with her sewing, as usual.

12.  Two things there are with memory will abide—­
     Whatever else befall—­while life flows by.

13.  To the child it was not permitted to look beyond into the hazy lines that bounded his oasis of flowers.

14.  With them, morning is not a new issuing of light, a new bursting forth of the sun; a new waking up of all that has life, from a sort of temporary death.

15.  Whatever ground you sow or plant, see that it is in good condition.

16.  However that be, it is certain that he had grown to delight in nothing else than this conversation.

17.  The soul having been often born, or, as the Hindoos say, “traveling the path of existence through thousands of births,” there is nothing of which she has not gained knowledge.

18.  The ancients called it ecstasy or absence,—­a getting-out of their bodies to think.

19.  Such a boy could not whistle or dance.

20.  He had rather stand charged with the imbecility of skepticism than with untruth.

21.  He can behold with serenity the yawning gulf between the ambition of man and his power of performance.

22.  He passed across the room to the washstand, leaving me upon the bed, where I afterward found he had replaced me on being awakened by hearing me leap frantically up and down on the floor.

23.  In going for water, he seemed to be traveling over a desert plain to some far-off spring.

24.  Hasheesh always brings an awakening of perception which magnifies the smallest sensation.

25.  I have always talked to him as I would to a friend.

26.  Over them multitudes of rosy children came leaping to throw garlands on my victorious road.

27.  Oh, had we some bright little isle of our own!

28.  Better it were, thou sayest, to consent;
     Feast while we may, and live ere life be spent.

29.  And now wend we to yonder fountain, for the hour of rest is at hand.

ADVERBS.

[Sidenote:  Adverbs modify.]

279.  The word adverb means joined to a verb.  The adverb is the only word that can join to a verb to modify it.

[Sidenote:  A verb.]