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Title: The Children
Author: Alice Meynell
Release Date: March 16, 2005 [eBook #2012]
Language: English
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Transcribed from the 1911 John Lane edition by David Price, email
ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
THE CHILDREN
Contents
Fellow Travellers with a Bird, I.
Fellow Travellers with a Bird, II.
Children in Midwinter
That Pretty Person
Out of Town
Expression
Under the Early Stars
The Man with Two Heads
Children in Burlesque
Authorship
Letters
The Fields
The Barren Shore
The Boy
Illness
The Young Children
Fair and Brown
Real Childhood
FELLOW TRAVELLERS WITH A BIRD, I.
To attend to a living child is to be baffled in your humour, disappointed
of your pathos, and set freshly free from all the pre-occupations. You
cannot anticipate him. Blackbirds, overheard year by year, do not
compose the same phrases; never two leitmotifs alike. Not the tone, but
the note alters. So with the uncovenated ways of a child you keep no
tryst.
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