Identifier: stnicholasserial31dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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•GLEAMING MARBLE, DULL RICH GOLD, BRIGHT VERMILION, AND DARK BRONZEALL HELPED TO MAKE IT PLEASING TO THE EYE.
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THE OUTSIDE WORLD WAS NOTHING.126 THE THREE CASKETS. 127 was not the highest possible. The fact is thatthe Gothic Prince did not think much aboutVeras appearance at all. He thought of heras being far above himself in goodness, just aswe think of people whom we like, when wedont think only of their looks but of what theyare in character — of their niceness. So it wasnot of Veras looks that he thought, but of hergoodness, her spirit; he formed an ideal, and inhis love for her beautiful spirit he endeavored tobe worthy of her by trying to be good also. Thiswas a very much higher ideal than that of thebeautiful Greek Prince. His ideal of Vera wasso personal, of some one so like himself, that,though Vera to him was very beautiful and veryclear, for that very reason she became less fine in-stead of his becoming finer; for the Greeks Verawalked and thought on his own level; he didnot have to raise his eyes. The Gothic Princefixed those reverent eyes of his on an ideal sohigh that it was al

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