Well, I hurt my back yesterday so I did not get a chance to post a quote. I'm feeling a bit better today, so I will give you another long one to cover both yesterday and today. :) This one is from, The Selfish
Giant, one of my favorite short stories from Oscar Wilde…
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Downstairs ran the
Giant in great joy, and out into the garden. He hastened across the grass, and
came near to the child. And when he came quite close his face grew red with
anger, and he said, "Who hath dared to wound thee?" For on the palms
of the child's hands were the prints of two nails, and the prints of two nails
were on the little feet.
"Who hath
dared to wound thee?" cried the Giant; "tell me, that I may take my
big sword and slay him."
"Nay!"
answered the child; "but these are the wounds of Love."
"Who art thou?"
said the Giant, and a strange awe fell on him, and he knelt before the little
child.
And the child
smiled on the Giant, and said to him, "You let me play once in your
garden, to-day you shall come with me to my garden, which is Paradise."
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