Harangues in silvery and selectest phrase,

’Neath waxlight in a glorified saloon

Where mirrors multiply the girandole.

R. Browning (The Ring and the Book, I).

This and the next five quotations are word-pictures ([see p. 85]).


“Oh, what are you waiting for here, young man?

What are you looking for over the bridge?”

A little straw hat with streaming blue ribbons;

—And here it comes dancing over the bridge!