"For if the object of your love be absent, her image is present, and her sweet name is still familiar in my ears.

One image had one gown worth 400 crowns and more.

They told us that, on the top of a high mountain in a neighbouring forest, there was a great church, in which was an image of the Virgin, which worked many miracles, and that the church was served by forty monks, whom they named Calojeriens.

Among his writings are a number of stories for children: "The Tanglewood Tales," "The Snow-Image," "The Wonder Books," and some stories of American history.

exclaimed Beatrice, growing almost as white as the image.

Poor girl" and she turned again to the image as it lay upon the table,"see how the hair lies moulded round her ears with the water, and how her eyelashes stick to her cheekPoor girl.

See how peaceful she looks;" and with a sudden whim, Antony took the image and set it lying back on a soft cushion in a corner of the couch, at the same time throwing round its neck his black cloak, which he had cast off as he came in.

The image nestled into the cushion as though it had veritably been a living woman weary for sleep, and softly smiling that it was near at last.

" At that moment Antony's touch had been a little too forcible, the image hung poised for a moment and then began to fall in the direction of Beatrice.

Though to break any image of you, dear," he added tenderly, "would seem a kind of sacrilege.

He too felt a little haunted as he climbed his châlet staircase and unlocked the door, every sound he made echoing fatefully in the silent wood; and when he had found a place for the image and hung her there, she certainly looked a ghostly companion for the midnight lamp, in the middle of a wood.

Who else can it be written for?" "To the Image of me that you have set up in my place.

But the inspiration, the wish to write it, came from the image" "It is certainly true that I love to look at it, as I love to look at a picture of youbecause it is you" "As yet, no doubt, but you will soon love it for its own sake.

These thoughts gave him a new desire to look again at the image.

During dinner the conscious side of his mind had been luxuriating in the romantic sound of "until the rising of the moon,"for he was as yet a long way from being quite simple even with Silencieux,and the idea of his going out with serious eagerness to meet one who, if she was as he knew a living being, was an image too, delighted his sense of fantastic make-believe.

The brilliant whiteness of the image had fascinated the little creature.

But she noticed, with a shudder, that the space usually filled by the Image was vacant.

How could a lifeless image have power over the life of his child?

And yet again, was Silencieux a lifeless image?

And still again, if she were an image, was it not always to an image that humanity from the beginning had been sacrificed?

To look at Beatrice one might indeed believe in Godand yet was it not Beatrice who had made God in her own image?

The worshipper of the Image is dead within me.

I will live in the image.

" "Listen, Beatrice; when we return to the Valley, return only to leave it for ever, I will take the Image and smash it in a hundred piecesfor I hate it now as much as I once loved it.

Opposite to him, lying back in her cushions, was the Image draped in a large black velvet cloak.