Days Off, and Other Digressions

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Henry Van Dyke. Days Off, and Other Digressions

Days Off, and Other Digressions

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DAYS OFF

A HOLIDAY IN A VACATION

HIS OTHER ENGAGEMENT

BOOKS THAT I LOVED AS A BOY

AMONG THE QUANTOCK HILLS

BETWEEN THE LUPIN AND THE LAUREL

LITTLE RED TOM

SILVERHORNS

NOTIONS ABOUT NOVELS

SOME REMARKS ON GULLS

LEVIATHAN

THE ART OF LEAVING OFF

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Henry Van Dyke

Published by Good Press, 2019

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My Uncle Peter's voice had grown very deep and gentle while he was saying these things. He sat looking far away into the rosy heart of the fire, where the bright blaze had burned itself out, and the delicate flamelets of blue and violet were playing over the glowing, crumbling logs. It seemed as if he had forgotten where we were, and gone a-wandering into some distant region of memories and dreams. I almost doubted whether to call him back; the silence was so full of comfortable and friendly intercourse.

"Well," said I, after a while, "you are an incorrigible moralist, but certainly a most unconventional one. The orthodox would never accept your philosophy. They would call you a hedonist, or something equally dreadful."

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