“Then you choosed it from _itself_,” Bruno thoughtfully remarked. “Father, _could_ Sylvie choose a thing from itself?”
“Yes, my own one,” the old man replied to Sylvie, not noticing Bruno’s embarrassing question, “it _was_ the same Jewel—but you chose quite right.” And he fastened the ribbon round her neck again.
“SYLVIE WILL LOVE ALL—ALL WILL LOVE SYLVIE,” Bruno murmured, raising himself on tiptoe to kiss the ‘little red star.’ “And, when you look _at_ it, it’s red and fierce like the sun—and, when you look _through_ it, it’s gentle and blue like the sky!”
“God’s own sky,” the little fellow repeated, as they stood, lovingly clinging together, and looking out into the night. “But oh, Sylvie, what makes the sky such a _darling_ blue?”
Sylvie’s sweet lips shaped themselves to reply, but her voice sounded faint and very far away. The vision was fast slipping from my eager gaze: but it seemed to me, in that last bewildering moment, that not Sylvie but an angel was looking out through those trustful brown eyes, and that not Sylvie’s but an angel’s voice was whispering
[N.B. ‘I’ refers to “Sylvie and Bruno,” ‘II’ to “Sylvie and Bruno Concluded.”]
A Accelerated Velocity, causes of; II. 190 Air, Cotton-wool lighter than, how to obtain; II. 166 Animal-Suffering, mystery of; II. 296 Anti-Teetotal Card; II. 139 Artistic effect said to require Indistinctness; I. 241 Asylums, Lunatic-, future use for; II. 132 Axioms of Science; II. 330
B Badgers, the Three (Poem); I. 247 Barometer, sideways motion of; I. 13 Baron Doppelgeist; I. 85 Bath, Portable, for Tourists; I. 25 Bazaars, Charity-; II. 44 Beauty, Pain of realising; II. 337 Bed, reason for never going to; II. 141 Bees, Mind of; II. 29 Bessie’s Song; II. 76 Bible-Selections for Children; I. xiii ” ” learning by heart; I. xiv Black Light, how to produce; II. 341 Boat, motion of, how to imitate on land; II. 108 Books, or Minds. Which contain most Science? I. 21 Boots for Horizontal Weather; I. 14 Brain, inverted position of; I. 243 Bread-sauce appropriate for Weltering; I. 58 Breaking promises. Why is it wrong? II. 27 Bruno’s Song: I. 215 Burden of Proof misplaced by Crocodiles; I. 230 ” ” ” Ladies; I. 235 ” ” ” Watts, Dr.; do.
C ‘Care’ and ‘Don’t-Care,’ history of; II. 385 Carrying one’s self. Why is it not fatiguing? I. 169 Charity-Bazaars; II. 44 ” fallacies as to; II. 43 ” Pseudo-; II. 42 Child’s Bible; I. xiii ” Sunday, in last generation; I. 387 ” view of Adult Life; II. 260 ” ” Present Life; I. 330 Choral Services, effect of; I. 273. II. xix Chorister’s life, dangers of; I. 274. II. xix Church-going, true principle of; I. 272 Competition for Scholars; II. 187 Competitive Examination; II. 184 Conceited Critic always depreciates; I. 237 Content, opportunity for cultivating; I. 152 ‘Convenient’ and ‘Inconvenient,’ difference in meaning; I. 140 Conversation at Dinner-parties, how to promote: (_see_ “Dinner-parties”) Cotton-wool lighter than air, how to obtain; II. 166 Critic, conceited, always depreciates; I. 237 ” how to gain character of; I. 238 Crocodiles, Logic of; I. 230 Croquet. Why is it demoralising? II. 135