Читать книгу The Complete Works of Algernon Blackwood. Novels, Short Stories, Horror Classics, Occult & Supernatural Tales, Plays онлайн

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'I'll try,' he said, with portentous gravity.

The child stared up at him with the sure knowledge in her eyes that between them they held the key to all that was really worth knowing.

He stooped to kiss her hair, but before he could do so, with a laugh and a dancing step he scarcely heard, she was gone from his side and half-way down the passage, so that he kissed the empty air.

'Bless her mighty little heart!' he exclaimed straightening himself up again. 'Was there ever such a teacher in the world before?'

He became aware that the world held power gentle yet immense, that were urging him in directions hitherto undreamed of. With such a fairy guide! he might find—he was already finding—not merely safety-valves of expression, but an outlet into the bargain for his creative imagination.

'And a little child shall lead them,' he murmured in his beard, as he went slowly down the passage to his room to dress for dinner. Again he felt like singing.

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The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing standing in the way.