nd look off like a nightingale on a bough. He
knew his power, that boy; and he stepped forward to his stand when he
pleased, certain that he would be forgiven as soon as he began to sing.
And such spirit and life as he threw into the performance, rollicking
through the Vespers with a perfect abandon of carriage, as if he could
sing himself out of his skin if he liked.

While the little angels down below were pattering about with their wax
tapers, keeping the holy fire burning, suddenly the organ stopped, the
monk shut his book with a bang, the boys blew out the candles, and I
heard them all tumbling down-stairs in a gale of noise and laughter. The
beautiful boy I saw no more.

About him plays the light of tender memory; but were he twice as lovely,
I could never think of him as having either the simple manliness or the
good fortune of the New England boy.

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